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masterpiece ‘Devika (Goddess)’

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FEATURES

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THE THE

As a revitalised Matt Johnson prepares to
release an audio document of The The’s
2018 Comeback Tour, he's also pondering
his next creative move, while reliving a
colourful back story for us

DURAN DURAN Now featuring four of
the original fab five, the new romantic
scene's most celebrated graduates are back
hitting an unlikely late-career peak
CHICAGO BLUES BREAKERS The
60s might have seen a celebrated British
blues boom, but the American sound it
channeled was reverberating over there, too

DEAN FRIEDMAN An audience with
the US songwriter whose line in wry MOR
and sharply polemical vignettes has
stretched way beyond his Lucky Stars

COVER STORY R.E.M.

By 1995, Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe had
shown the world how to get stadium-huge
without a shred of artistic compromise. But
the simple task of writing a new album on
the road was about to be hit by potentially
life-threatening complications...

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NEWS Ап exclusive peek at new Ritchie
Blackmore and Depeche Mode photo
albums, plus a look at new Lennon stamps
THE VINYLIST Craig Charles reopens his
Trunk Of Funk, investing in The Vibrators, and
enough LP releases to fill a small warehouse

TRACKLIST

COLLECTING

28

RC INVESTIGATES the hidden vinyl

treasures lurking in the UK's antique shops

30 THE COLLECTOR DJ, producer and
Paranoid Londoner Gerardo Delgado

32 VALUE ADDED FACTS British label
pioneer Toyin Agbetu, aka Master Tee

36 DIGGIN’ FOR GOLD What ABBA's
Bjórn and Benny did next, plus Eun-Ha Lee

40 MOST WANTED wings single, Kylie book,
Elvis' uniform and more exotic goodies

REGULARS

6 FOR THE RECORD Readers’ ripostes

44 RICHARD Н KIRK An appreciation of
the late Cabaret Voltaire post-punk originator

46 МОТ FORGOTTEN Michael Chapman,
Pee Wee Ellis and others remembered

48 ALAN LANCASTER Honouring the
bassist from Quo's "frantic four" line-up

OPINION

50 ВОВ STANLEY is back in 1990, when
pop's possibilities seemed endless

52 ДАМ McCANN remembers the key role of
local record shops in his musical upbringing

54 DAVID QUANTICK says don't just Let It
Be, bring on the pop biopics waiting to happen

56 ІШКЕ HAINES voulez-vous? Non Merci!

58 TALKING HEADS inside the minds of
Lee Ranaldo, Jack Frost and other notables

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REVIEWS

100 FROM THE VAULTS Reissues and
comps including Joni Mitchell plus the
long-awaited Let It Be box set reviewed
NEW ALBUMS Elbow, IDLES, Damon
Albarn and many others have fresh releases
we have lent our discerning ears to
BOOKS Bobby Gillespie's memoir plus
Prince and Shane MacGowan books perused
SINGLES Courettes, Billy Idol, Humble
Pie and other 45s given a listen

DVDS including Beatles and Velvets docs
LIVES Madness, The Rolling Stones and
New Order back treading the boards

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READER SERVICES

120 CLASSIFIED LISTINGS

134 GIG GUIDE and a chat with Don McLean
136 SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL OFFERS
138 STOCKISTS Includes Shop Of The Month

CODA
140 COMPETITIONS & CROSSWORD

Win John Mayall and Chameleons sets

1.42 BIRTH! SCHOOL! WORK! DEATH!
Songwriter Diane Warren on the tunes —
including her own — that made her

143 UNDER THE RADAR The Direct Hits

1.44 THE ENGINE ROOM Pianoman to the
stars, the late Nicky Hopkins

146 10 OF THE BEST The Impulse! label

The stunning filmed performance capturing The Pineapple Thief
at their very best performing songs from their illustrious catalogue
including for the first time live, songs from Versions of the Truth.

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The RC staff s favourite...

| | 9-9
| admit i - 4 келме them when they were а culty secret; а rumour (murmur, even).
And this had the murkiness of something dredged up from the subconscious. Great how
the only words you can make out from the folk-inf(l)ected jangle and Stipe's mumbled
logorrhoea are "conversation fear"

› Shiny Happy People
The uber-uplifting 1991 trans-Atlantic Top 10 not only featured a solar-bright
B-52's' Kate Pierson, but even outshone Celine Dion on Sesame Street: Songs
From The Street 6. «2

| Country Feedback
A precursor to New Adventures highlight E-Bow The Letter, this mixes country-folk
atmospherics and a vocal stream-of-consciousness to hauntingly wonderful effect..

Everybody Hurts
Stipe always seemed embarrassed about writing simple songs, but these lyrics are as
effective as any of his more gnomic lyrics. | blame Bill Berry, who co-wrote it.

shiny Happy People
hm embarrassed by my own obviousness in picking this, but l've never forgotten the first
time | heard the cheerful interplay between the three voices: Kate Pierson, Michael Stipe
and Mike Mills.

» Nightswimming
A hauntingly beautiful ballad from Automatic For The People that reflects solitude, but
also freedom and risk, love and loss. If Edward Hopper had written songs, | image they'd
be like this.

Losing My Religion
The lyrics to this classy track are great. It's a very catchy song that you just want to sing
along to: "Oh no, I've said too much, | haven't said enough.”

Disturbance At The Heron House
Mysterious, powerful and richly melodic, the energy pours out of this superbly
constructed song.

| Me In Honey
The perfect raucous end to the perfect LP that is 1991's Out Of Time.

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1981, a great year for music, right up there with 1956, |
1966, 1971 and 1977 as one of those amazingly fertile T A 1
periods when everything seemed to go right and there 4a
was a proverbial embarrassment of riches. But right at the last

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minute we got offered an interview with R.E.M. and we thought it would be daft to turn
down an exclusive encounter with one of the biggest bands of the last four decades, so,
unfortunately, the 1981 love-in had to be put on ice.

Not entirely, though. This is still, in many ways, an '81-fest. Our R.E.M. cover story
touches on their emergence that year with Radio Free Europe and how they managed to,
much like The Smiths in the UK, make Byrdsian jangle with a charismatic frontman seem
like the newest pleasure on earth. As for the rest of Niall Doherty's excellent feature,
the focus is on 1995-96 and the making of the New Adventures In Hi-Fi album, at
a time when they were arguably the biggest stadium alt.rock group on the planet,
despite enduring all manner of troubles. As for Joe Geesin's ample R.E.M. discography, it
should present problems of its own — which of Athens' finest's collectables to invest in?

Still on an '81 tip, Duran Duran talk to Chris Roberts about being one of the few
outfits from those halcyon new romantic days to still be doing credible work. Another
group from that era, Depeche Mode, have a gallery of unseen photos in the News
pages, as does Ritchie Blackmore, whose Rainbow had a pretty successful 1981 all
told. And Matt Johnson tells Wesley Doyle about, among other things, his underrated

1981 masterwork, Burning Blue Soul.

Elsewhere, Alan Harper examines the impact of Chicago blues on a young, generation
of mid-60s US and UK bluesologists. Dean Friedman explains that there was plenty of
life after 1978 hit, Lucky Stars, and there are articles on The Direct Hits, Nicky Hopkins,
Diane Warren, the Impulse! label and Medicine Head, reviews of new and reissued
albums from Booker T, Damon Albarn, Elbow, Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, The Beatles,
The Pop Group and IDLES, while British "street soul" label entrepreneur, Toyin Agbetu,
aka Master Tee, is profiled in Value Added Facts. Fans of music from all eras will find

plenty to enjoy here.

Stay safe, and see you next month for what шш to be a spectacular

Christmas issue,

Lind

WIRE IRE

| never usually read my copy of RC with the
expectation of being left confused. However, the
letter from Mark Gaines [RC 524] regarding the
“howler” by your magazine, while reviewing Wire's
PF456 Deluxe (or 'Deleuxe', if you will), left me in
such a state. Far from misspelling their classic 1 2 X
U — as it was, indeed, titled on their debut album — it
was reworked and released as a single by Pink Flag
Records in 2000 as Twelve Times You, still available
on Pink Flag's website. Furthermore, that release was
included in the PF456 Deluxe set, the album under
review, but titled this time, on the sleeve, as Twelve
Times X and Twelve Times Y.

The problem with being a pedant is that one day
you will come up against a bigger one.
Neil Pearce, email

COMEDY: DIVINE

Thanks for a great magazine. Тһе latest one [RC
524] came through today and | realised that I'd
wanted to drop you a line about RC 523 but hadn't
done it. There was so much in it. Jack Good in The

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Paul Lester

Engine Room was great. He was ahead of his time.
| was too young to see Boy Meets Girl, but he did
book Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent for the show,
so it can't have been bad. To have real live rockers
rather than British imitations on a British show must
have been incredible for kids at the time. He's also
reputed to have put Gene Vincent in leather for the
first time. There was also a musical about him called
Good Rockin' Tonite.

| also loved the comedy songs feature but the
subject deserves more space. There was no mention
of Ihe Goodies' Funky Gibbon, Jasper Carrott's Funky
Moped, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's Goodbye... and
what about Jake Thackray's On Again! On Again!? Dare
| mention Chuck Berry's My Ding A Ling?! The subject
is fascinating and goes back to music hall and variety.
There's not only George Formby's With My Little Stick
Of Blackpool Rock, but also Max Miller with The Hiking
Song... and, if we go back further, Gus Elen's It's A
Great Big Shame. | could witter on forever, but you'd
accuse me of going On Again! On Again!
Sue Jones, email
See RC issues 310, 426 on comedy records. PL

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HOG HEAVEN
| really appreciated the assessment by Luke Haines
[RC 524] of the 1973 solo album, The Two Sides Of
Tony (T.S.) McPhee. Though it's widely believed that
the TS stands for "tough shit", the letters originally
didn't mean anything. The record producer Mike
Vemon came up with the initials when recording
the Blues Anytime compilation albums in 1966.
He thought that the letters would make Tony sound
like “an authentic delta bluesman”, but his first idea
was IC. This was rejected owing to the popular 60s TV
cartoon character, Top Cat (his feline gang referred
to him as TC).

| mention this as the story was related by McPhee
between numbers in the first half of his solo tour to
promote the Two Sides album: "| wanted to ask Mike
about all the royalties from the reissues of the Blues
Anytime albums, but when | phoned him | was relayed
this message: 'Remember the TS, it stands for
tough shit.’” That first night of the tour at London's
Roundhouse (16/9/73) was extraordinary. Billed as
the first one-man synthesiser tour, he performed The
Hunt with four ARP synthesisers, an electric piano,
a compact piano and a Rhythm Ace Drum Box. [he
album was recorded at his home studio using second-
hand equipment from the original De Lane Lea studio
(Kingsway) with a mixing desk previously used by The
Animals for House Of The Rising Sun, Jimi Hendrix,
Fleetwood Mac, and The Groundhogs.
Paul Freestone, author of Eccentric Man:
A Biography & Discography Of Tony (T.S.) McPhee.

Great article about Tony (T.S.) McPhee in RC 524 by
Luke Haines about his album The Two Sides Of Tony
(T.S.) McPhee. After listening to all Тһе Groundhogs'
albums up to Who Will Save The World?, | was
astounded by Тһе Two Sides Of... and couldn't wait to
see him at Birmingham Town Hall a few months later.

The gig followed the album, TS sitting to perform
the first side of blues, a lone figure on a small stool,
switching from acoustic to electric as the set went
on. After a short interval, the stage was filled with
(I think) at least three huge banks of synthesisers —
ARP 20005 - and he gave us The Hunt in all its glory.
After that, he plugged in his guitar (an SG, perhaps)
and, together with the synths, gave us an encore of
Cherry Red, the likes of which Га never heard.

| happen to have a flyer for the gig, two tickets (one
unused, | don't recall why) and various press cuttings.
All | really remember is how utterly absorbing it was.
And only 48 years ago. Seems like yesterday...
Paul Williams, email

| very much enjoyed Luke Haines in RC 524, agreeing
with pretty much everything he had to say about Топу
McPhee, The Groundhogs and, specifically, The Two
Sides Of Tony 'T.S.' McPhee: such a great album. | was
introduced to The Groundhogs via my well-informed
older brother back in 1977, when | was 15. | loved
Cherry Red (doesn't everyone?) from the album, Split,
but quickly grew to love all Hog music. My personal
favourite album is a toss-up between Solid and
Hogwash, but | would urge the uninitiated to immerse
themselves in some of the great Mr Mcphee's guitar-
mashing music at the first opportunity. A visionary, Tony
regularly wrote about the environment — it couldn't
have been more prescient.

Well done everyone at RC for another great

1 Was There

A reader’s recollection of
a key music event

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This month: Solid ' P"

Silver 60s Show -
St David's

Hall, Cardiff,

9 March 1999
Taking our seats, to the strains of Hi Ho Silver Lining
playing over the PA, my wife, Helen, and l, were not
sure what to expect.

The first act was Brian Poole (and The Electrix).
During the 60s, he was backed by The Tremeloes,
but they realised that Brian didn't have much of
a voice and they split. Brian was big on black – shirt,
jacket, trousers, shoes and hair dye. We all sang
along to Do You Love Me, Candy Man, and a very
brave version of Silence Is Golden, among others.

Next up were Freddie & The Dreamers. Freddie
was bald, shorter than | imagined, bandy and
sounded like a demented Willie Carson. Not a big
fan of Freddie, but it was nice to hear If You Gotta
Make A Fool Of Somebody, You Were Made For Me
and I'm Telling You Now.

Third on the bill was Billy J Kramer, who looked
the same as he did in the 60s. He was excellent,
with remarkable versions of Trains And Boats And
Planes, Little Children and Bad To Me. And he
moved and sang at the same time — Brian and
Freddie had some difficulty singing and moving at
the same time.

Topping the bill was Peter Noone, formerly
Herman of Hermits fame. I’ve no idea what
medication he was on at the turn of the century,
but he looked about 20. | have to say he was
phenomenal and we were treated to No Milk
Today, Sunshine Girl, I’m Into Something Good, My
sentimental Friend and If | Were a Carpenter, etc...
Oh, and during his set, Peter described the audience
as "one composite cosmic oneness” - I’ve still no
idea what that means.

Brian, Freddie, Billy and Peter may have been
past their best, but they, and the audience,
enjoyed reliving the 60s and having a good old-
fashioned singsong. And, let's be fair, they were
there at the start of the whole music explosion in
Great Britain.

Jon Hawkins

STRLLS

If you have a personal reminiscence, please
send 3-400 words to paul.lester@metropolis.
co.uk and include a ticket scan or memorabilia.

magazine. Keep up the good work.
Henry Exton, email

GO-GO PRIEST!

| refer to the item about the early 705 Al Atkins line-
up of Judas Priest in RC 524, page 107. When | was
in my early 20s in that era, here in Rotherham, there
used to be two working men's clubs which staged
weekly music nights, namely the East Dene WMC and
Wingfield WMC. | remember having to join the WMC
movement in order to gain entry to these excellent
nights. Both clubs adopted the same format, with

a DJ playing records for dancing, and then a live
group — though | do recall that, at the Wingfield club,
they had a period when they employed topless go-go
dancers! | clearly remember that Judas Priest played
several times at East Dene WMC, and | consider
myself fortunate to have seen the early line-up play
back їп those days.

Adrian Booth, Rotherham

NOIR HEAT

Your brilliant monthly never ceases to amaze and
surprise me. As soon as | saw the top cover (RC 524)
Strapline “Get Yer Noir-Noir’s Out — Goth Rarities” | put

The Sisters Of Mercy’s First & Last & Always LP on to
dive into the superb piece by Wesley Doyle and Mick
Mercer. The late 7Os/early 805 nailed my black-dyed
spiky, quiffed hair colours to this movement of punk
going into goth. Admittedly, | was following the more
commercial (overground) sounds, even enrolling into
the Siouxsie & The Banshees fan club, a band | saw so
many times. | was buying the 12” singles and going to
gigs all over London їп my fringed jacket, all in black,
to the likes of the Sisters at the Lyceum and RAH,
Gene Loves Jezebel at some student union hall or
other, The Cure at Wembley, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry at
the ICA and The Mission in Camden and Kentish Town.
Great memories, RC: that’s the beauty of your articles:
it's much more than just information and story-telling.
Next | went from goth to glam by putting on Mud
Rock to read Steve Burniston’s RAK Records account
of one of the best UK studios ever. And then Electric
Warrior to read the 16 pages on T.Rex. Never have
| enjoyed getting out my LPs more than to this Issue.
Wait, | see there’s a Terry Hall interview: maybe my
Fun Boy Three LP next...?
Simon Mullins, email

MINISTRY OF SILLY TALKS

Re: David Quantick’s article in RC 523 concerning
apt, unusual and strange album titles. My personal
favourite is Man’s A Lump Of Black Plastic With A Hole
In The Middle. David states in said article, “Some
album names are very long, as though the artist just
wanted to get into [he Guinness Book Of Records.”
One title David gave as an example of this was Happy
Mondays’ Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour
Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out),
which is a staggering 14 words long. Unbeatable — or
so | thought! Discussing the article with a mate the
following day, he was quick to mention an album
(issued in 1981) by Bladder Flask entitled, One Day

[ Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met &
Everybody Thought | Was Whistling (an even more
staggering 19 words long!) Another contender, my
mate informed me, would be Nurse With Wound’s
debut LP (1979), the equally bizarrely-titled Chance
Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine
And An Umbrella. Convinced that he was just making
these band names/album titles up, | did some
research and, sure enough, they actually exist! | also
discovered that, coincidentally, Bladder Flask and
NWW are currently collaborating on an album — the
title of which is yet to be confirmed.

Martin, email

PS: How about a feature on strange/silly/long band
names? I'd nominate The 40 Bouncing Wah! Athletico
Absolutely Hippopotamus Sweet Marie 81 Brothers
SW9 Band. If you think | made that up, refer to a
1982 edition of Flexipop magazine, and its so-called
Silly Chart, for evidence. The Bladder Flask just scrape
into the chart at a disappointing 1 /th out of 20!

VINYL VS CD

I'm getting tired of record fairs and second-hand
record shops still fighting the Vinyl vs CD Wars of 15
years ago, when they should actually be fighting the
Physical Item vs Non-Existent Wars that are currently
going on around them. This snobbish attitude to CDs,
amplified by your own illustrious organ, makes no
sense іп a world of downloads and streaming. I've
been collecting both vinyl and CD since the 805, and
have had no reason to choose one over the other

NEXT MONTH

IN SHOPS 2 DEC

BILLY BRAGG

+ TRUNK RECORDS

LETTERS

The first gig that RC’s Reviews
| Editor Niall Doherty went to,

Е aged 14, was R.E.M. (p86) at
Ж Milton Keynes Bowl, which he
was more than happy to relay
to Michael Stipe during an
interview for this month's cover feature. "Jesus
Christ, that's auspicious..." came the response.

# Notorious pop trash Chris
^1 Roberts spoke with remarkably
"WM. durable big things Duran
= ¢ Duran (068) about their future,
; dE past and careless memories.
He also remembers the great Richard H Kirk
of Cabaret Voltaire. His book on The Velvet
Underground is published next Spring.

| Wesley Doyle had tickets for

| The The's (p62) 2018 London

, comeback shows, but missed

| them all when work took him
Б * abroad. So һе was very happy

when a live film/album was announced, and

even happier to talk to Matt Johnson about that

project and the rest of his career to date.

Jason Barnard is a lifelong
fan of Dean Friedman (p80)
and host of the Strange Brew
podcast, which features
major (and lesser/minor/
underappreciated) rock and pop artists and
figures from the rock and pop scene from the
60s to 2000s such as Dean. Jason has also
written for Ugly Things and Shindig! More at
thestrangebrew.co.uk

— some music is better on vinyl, some on CD, and
my purchase will be informed accordingly. It was

the marketing managers at record companies who
decided you can only have one or the other — they
were to blame for telling people to get rid of their
vinyl in the 905 and buy CDs, and now the same
thing's happening again in reverse. | can offer plenty
of anecdotal evidence to suggest that more and
more young people are scouring record shops and
charity shops for classic albums on CD. Why pay
£25 in HMV for a vinyl re-press of Automatic For The
People, or £10 for a stream, when you can buy a
physical copy in the high street for £1? | haven't even
mentioned the vibrant CD collectors' market for first/
early pressings. So many dealers at fairs tell me they
don't stock CDs because they don't sell, but when
you look at the meagre selection on offer, it's all

905 boy bands and unheard-ofs — the equivalent of
filling your stall with scratched Val Doonican records
and complaining that vinyl is dead because nobody
bought anything. Maybe it's time we all faced the true
enemy: streaming.

Mark Thompson, Suffolk

RC champions all physical formats. When a release
is mentioned, as per News, it's assumed to be on
CD unless otherwise stated (LP, BD etc). We love

CDs! PL

GENE VINCENT

COLDIE & THE GINGERBREADS

Record Collector 7

| \ EXCLUSIVE

ا ا

Ross Halfin's Ritchie Blackmore photobook is due this month via Rufus, as
a 300-copy Deluxe signed edition (£199) and 50-copy A3 edition (£599). The
photographer guides us through a selection of images irom book...

"Ritchie loves football, and he always took it
seriously on tour. He always wore those socks,
too! Of course, in the US, most of the crew were

American and were not only hopeless at the game,

but also less than keen to turn up for matches on
their days off. This was in Cleveland, Ohio."

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"| used to love shooting Ritchie onstage - һе had such presence. In this shot, | think that he was
trying to direct drummer Bobby Rondinelli, who was losing time, having taken a quaalude on what he
thought was his day off! Allegedly."

“This shot was taken post-show
in-Berlin. Ritchie was soaking wet
and had just come offstage.”

"This was Ritchie, laughing in Stockholm. People think that he's miserable, but, in
fact, he's very funny. Because of his image, and often how he was photographed,
you'd imagine him to be austere, but he's actually very easy to work with. | never

fell out with him. We just lost touch. I'd love to see him again."

“This shot was taken in Leeds.
After Rainbow played out the
Judy Garland song, Over The
Rainbow, the show would
always explode. Here, literally!
l'd complained that the stage
was too high to shoot, so the
crew got me a crate to stand
on. It turned out that they'd
also put a smoke bomb inside
it, which fired me into the air!
| was known to take these sort
of things in good spirit. It was
another member of the press
who got handcuffed to the
hotel bar, and they had to

call the Fire Brigade to get
her removed!”

“When Deep Purple re-formed for the second time, | went to Brixton Academy
in London to shoot them. | was backstage with Ritchie, when Colin Hart, the tour
manager, asked to speak to me, alone. Ritchie replied that anything that needed

5 to be said could be said іп front of him. It turned out that the rest of the band

2 had stated that if | photographed them, Га be kicked out of the venue. Ritchie

= said simply that if that happened, he'd not finish the show or, indeed, the tour. “Iron Maiden would never let anyone get a shot of them with their mascot,

5 | shot the show, but only Ritchie. So he deliberately dropped in Rainbow riffs ог, Eddie. But they were Rainbow's support and in such awe of Ritchie that nobody
^ оп occasion, started the wrong Purple song to annoy the others!" tried to stop us at the show in Cleveland." »

Record Collector 9

EXCLUSIVE |

Johnny Kidd Please Don't Touch 12-track
45rpm 10" LP, 33-track CD, Bear Family,
5 November. Bl Rufus Wainwright And
Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live LP; CD, two
bonuses, BMG, 26 November. Bl Loney F
Hutchins' unissued Buried Loot, Demos
From The House Of Cash And Outlaw
Era, 73-78, Appalachia, 10 December.
Due: (5) Matthews' Southern
Comfort's Eric Devries Song And Dance
Man, MiG, Connie Smith / atest Shade
Of Blue ACD, Wanda Jackson Capitol
Country Keepsakes, Wrasse, Bill Monroe
Kentucky Waltz 3CD, Dynamic, Lorrie
Morgan/Pam Tillis Come See Me And
Come Lonely, Cleopatra (12) Doc Watson
Life's Work ACD, Craft, Ronan Keating
Songs From The Home, Decca, Ronnie
Milsap Christmas With, Craft, Tony Joe
White Complete Warner Bros Recordings
2CD, Real Gone, Sally Oldfield Easy/
Celebration, Talking Elephant (14)
Melanie Candles In The Rain, Possum
(16) Paul Simon Miracle And Wonder,
Pushkin (19) Maddy Prior's Hannah
James & Toby Kuhn Sleeping Spirals,
Jigdoll; Willie Nelson The Willie Nelson
Family, Legacy, Lera Lynn On My Own,
Icons Creating Evil (26) Hank Williams
I'm Gonna Sing 2CD, BMG

(3) Trini Lopez The Rare Reprise

Singles, Omnivore (10) BJ Thomas /n
Remembrance, Real Gone.

"Ritchie waited until the Berlin crowd had

left, then made the crew leave the house

lights up, so that we could do a photo- “This is probably my favourite shot. | like it because
shoot. They weren't happy about it, but it's very straightforward and normal. You can see

| love this shot of him up on the barricade, the concentration on Ritchie's face as he tunes
with all the rubbish strewn behind him." | lS up for the show. He's got those football socks on
| КЕШЕНИ again, too!"

Lowell Fulson Live had a kickstarter.

com campaign to 15 October, subscribers
offered CD of 1983 show, flyer, photos,
press release, launch gig. Due:

(b) Jimmy Reed Rocks, Bear Family,
Seasick Steve Blues In Mono, There's A
Dead Skunk (12) Lightnin' Hopkins Mojo
Hand, Cleopatra (26) Bernie Marsden
Chess, Conquest, Robben Ford & The
Blue Line Live At Yoshi's 2CD, Repertoire.

Sophie Bramly Yo! The Early Days Of Hip-
Hop, 1982-84 photobook, Soul Jazz, 15
November. Due: er (12) Snoop
Dogg Algorithm, Def Jam (4)
Nas King's Disease ІІ, Mass Appeal.

Springtime, with Jim White (PJ Harvey),
Joyful Noise, 5 November. Ш Sean
O'Hagan/Nick Cave's Faith, Hope And
Carnage book, Canongate, autumn 2022.
ouede's Bernard Butler People Move
On 2LP, Special Edition ACD, with 2021
Vocals CD, B-Sides/2021 Vocals CD,
18-track CD of demos, rehearsals, live,
sessions, Demon, 28 January 2022.
Frightened Rabbit The Work book, Faber,
17 November. Ш Telefis А hAon, with
Garrett Lee (REM), Cathal Coughlan
(Microdisney), Dimple Discs, January
2022. В Travis The Invisible Band 20th
Anniversary 24-track 180g 2LP, clear
180g 2LP, green 2LP, including B-Sides,
30-track 2CD, with six unissued, Craft,
З December. Bl The White Stripes Live
At The Detroit Institute Of Arts red, white
2LP/DVD, from November 2001, is due
via thirdmanrecords.com. Bl Eels Extreme
Witchcraft CD, yellow LP, box with 45rpm
pink 180g 2LP, print, stickers, ouija
board, PIAS, 28 January 2022. E Shed
Seven A Maximum High 25th Anniversary >

“In Leeds, Ritchie wanted something to eat, so
пе went to the chippie round the corner from the
venue. There were loads of fans waiting there,
and he joined the queue. The funny thing was
that nobody came up to him. They just couldn't
believe that he was there. They were in awe."

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Photos: Ross Halfin

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Unpublished Depeche Mode shots out in
deluxe photobook

Czech-born UK photographer Michaela Olexova has an A4 black-cover Depeche Mode photobook, and 1,000-
copy white-cover book with exclusive print, due. She gave RC the story behind some of her unpublished photos...

Devotional Tour, June 1993

This takes me right back to the first time that | met
Depeche Mode, so, a proper pinch-me moment.

| flew from London to Prague to see their show
during the European leg of the Devotional Tour. At
that time, | was still co-managing their Czech fan
club, and | got introduced to all the band members.
A few months later, | was asked to help with their

official fan club magazine, BONG.

Dave Gahan, October 1996

This was taken during a couple of days that | spent
with Depeche Mode at RAK Studios, St John's Wood,
London, while they were recording Ultra. It was part of
an interview that | suggested for BONG, the highlight
being me taking photos in the studio while Dave
Gahan was rehearsing The Love Thieves. Mute later
asked to use my photos for a documentary DVD, as

part of Ultra Collector's Edition, in 2007.

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Martin Gore, May 1995

One thing that | always say when | get asked what it was
like working with Depeche Mode is that they were all
extremely supportive of my work and creative ideas, for
which I'll be forever grateful. So, when | was preparing
my photo exhibition of portraits in Prague, Martin kindly
agreed to do a quick photo session with me at his
country house. | remember it was a really hot, sunny day,
and he had to borrow my sunglasses to stop squinting.

The Singles Tour, October 1998

If you've ever been to a Depeche Mode show, you
know what an amazing connection there is between
the band and their fans. The energy during some of
their hits, like Personal Jesus or Everything Counts,
when the crowd starts waving their hands in unison,
still gives me goosebumps. Watching the crowd from
the side of the stage and seeing the response from
the band's perspective takes it to another level.

Michaela Olexova Dream - Depeche Mode Photographs
1994-2002 photobook is on Baoli Ltd, 4 November. See
michaelaolexova.com. Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan

& Soul Savers Imposter is on Columbia, 12 November.
Depeche Mode 101 BD with three bonuses, promo clip;
2CD/2DVD/BD, with poster, book, are on Sony,

3 December.

NEWS

orange, yellow, blue 3LP, test-pressing
ЗІР; box with orange, yellow, blue ЗІР, Іп
Colour white LP, 15-track Max-HiRange
Demo Tape CD, signed print, lanyard/
tour laminate, store.shedseven.com, 26
November. Bl Death Cab For Cutie The
Photo Album LP/12" with three bonuses
is due via Barsuk, spring 2022, while

a Deluxe DL is out and adds 10-track
Rarities & Unreleased Recordings and
12-track Band Demos. Due: November
(12) The Jazz Butcher Dr Cholmondley
Repents 4CD, Fire January 2022 (14) The
Maccabees' Orlando Weeks Hop Up,
musicglue.com (21) Miles Kane Change
The Show, BMG.

Due: November (5) Clifford Brown/Max
Roach At Basin Street, 20th Century
Masterworks (11) The Tommy Dorsey
Orchestra The Hits Collection 1935-58
ӨСІ, Acrobat (12) Maynard Ferguson
The Lost Tapes Bonus, Sleepy Night, John
Coltrane My Favorite Things, 20th Century
Masterworks, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The
George & Ira Gershwin Songbook 3CD
(19) Louis Armstrong At The Crescendo
1955 3CD, AJC, Wadada Leo Smith/
Jack Dejohnette/Vijay lyer A Love
Sonnet To Billie Holiday, Tum, Roland
Kirk Serenade To A Cuckoo, Eric Dolphy
Last Date, Jazz Up!.

Sodom М-16 20th Anniversary CD/book,
orange 2LP, each with two unissued;
Deluxe 4LP box, adding Bootleg 2LP,
including unissued Live Waken 2001/

Live Toyko 2002, unissued Live Bang
Your Head 2003, plus Live Bangkok
2002, USB stick, dog-tag, poster, BMG,
10 December. Bl Borknagar 25th
Anniversary 18-track 2LP, 22-track

2CD, Century Media, 12 November. E
Volbeat Servant Of The Mind CD, Deluxe
CD, 180g 2LP, clear, fluorescent, rust,
yellow, coloured 2LPs, orange, blue 2LP,
red, white 2LP, each with four bonuses,
box with 2CD, bandana, flask, EMI, 3
December. ШЕ. Matt Karpe Korn Every
Album Every Song book, SonicBond, 25
November. Bl Philosophobia's debut, with
Alex Landeburg (Kamelot), Kristoffer
Gildenlów (Kayak), is on Sensory in
2022. Due: November (Б) Nashville
Pussy Eaten Alive, Slinging Pig, Ministry
Every Day Is Halloween, Cleopatra (26)
Megadeth One Night In Buenos Aires
2CD, DVD, BD, Cleopatra December (3)
Ministry Bad Blood 4CD, НМЕ, Exodus
Impact Is Imminent, Music On CD (10) The
Murder Of My Sweet Gentleman's Legacy,
Frontiers (12) The Night Flight Orchestra
Aeromantic II (31) In Flames Come Clarity,
Nuclear Blast 2022 Circle Jerks’ Zander
Schloss Song About Songs, Blind Owl
January (21) Battle Beast Circus Of Doom,
Nuclear Blast February (11) Scorpions
Rock Believer, [TBC] March Hardcore
Superstar Abracadabra, [TBC].

Prog/Avant

Air 10,000 Hz Legend 20th Anniversary
Deluxe 2CD/BD, nine bonuses (four
unissued), 5.1/Dolby Atmos mixes,
Warners, 5 November. & Hawkwind Dust
Of Time 26-track 2CD, 81-track 6CD/
poster, Atomhenge, 10 December. M >

Photos: Michaela Olexova

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Cat Stevens
leaser and the Firecat
50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set

Celebrating the legendary 1971 album with this comprehensive 4CD, Blu-Ray, 2LP and 7”
single set. Features include: new 50th Anniversary Remaster by Paul Samwell-Smith on CD and
HD audio; 41 unreleased demos, sessions and live tracks; 21 ГУ performances; 7” single of
‘Moonshadow’ with Spike Milligan narration; 44-page replica of the “Teaser and the Firecat’
book, written and illustrated by Yusuf / Cat Stevens; extensive 108-page hard-cover essay book.
Also available: 4CD, Blu-Ray Deluxe; 2CD; CD: 180G LP

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RECORDS

What s Happening?!?!

Collecting's roads less travelled

At RC Towers, we learn of new music bubbling under
from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Peter Gabriel,
John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly, Ashanti, Ten

(two studio albums, 2022), Ariana Grande, Kreator,
Rihanna, Quiet Riot's Chuck Wright, Halsey, Gary
Barlow, Navarro/Hawkins/Chaney, Charlie XCX, Royal
Hunt, Tove Lo, Judas Priest's Rob Halford, KK's Priest,
David Holmes (on Heavenly), Black Star Riders (on
Earache), ex-Spacehog's Royston Langdon (on BFD),
Robert Glasper (on Loma Vista), Pulled Apart By
Horses (on Alcopop!), Interpol (on Matador), Lybica
(featuring Killswitch Engage’s Justin Foley, on Metal
Blade), 5 Seconds Of Summer (on BMG), Marina,
Repentance, Ane Brun, Steven Wilson, Mary J

Blige, Alter Bridge, The Zutons, The Winery Dogs,
Rina Sawayama, Kamelot’s Oliver Palotai/Elize Ryd
(Amaranthe), Kelis, Impelliteri, Diana Ross, King’s X;
Rush’s Geddy Lee has an autobiography due autumn
2022; and Altered Images are set to issue their first
Studio set since 1983 (on Cooking Vinyl).

CELLULOID HEROES

Visuals due: Jeff Finn's Before The End — Searching

For Jim Morrison documentary film; Irene Taylor's
documentary film on Celine Dion, via Sony; a biopic on
Johnny Bragg, from Shout! Studios; Bjorn Tjarnberg’s
documentary film on Avicii, via Candamo Film, in
2023; Stephen David Brooks’ upcoming Meet The
Pumps punk film has a soundtrack by Linda Perry; Paul
Thomas Anderson's upcoming Sean Penn film, Licorice
Pizza, features Tom Waits and HAIM's Alana Haim;

a documentary IV series/ catalogue revamp of Bing
Crosby, via Primary Wave; a Kesha Conjuring TV series,
via Discovery+, іп 2022; and an official documentary
on Stryper.

KIT & CABOODLE

Joe Bonamassa has a Lazarus 1959 Les Paul Standard
guitar out via Epiphone; the Bob Marley A-20 Marley
guitar is out via Guild.

ACOUSTIC

ri Bitch Bitchcraft, co-producers Anne
Preven (Madonna), Roma Baren (Laurie Anderson), Kill
Rock Stars TBC Lucas Hoge 12.25, producer Kent Wells
(Dolly Parton), has pre-orders via cmdshft.ffm.to.

INDIE
r (19) Brion Starr A Night To Remember,
producer Tony Visconti, Taxi Gauche.

METAL
oer (5) Mother Iron Horse Under The Blood
Moon, producer Blasko (Ozzy Osbourne), Ripple

Aeon Station

Ex-The Wrens' Kevin
Whelan on his first
set in 18 years

How come you're

back now?

After waiting 20 years,

| couldn't wait any longer.

| wanted to enjoy music again, and stop thinking that
time is an endless commodity. Aeon Station is special,
unlike anything I've been involved with before. | started
demos їп 2007, finished five in 2013 and, from
September to December 2020, | wrote six songs, for
a cohesive album. | recorded them across two days,
the first in a snowstorm, the second the day after my
second Covid shot.

What else have you been up to since

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December (12) Agarthic The Inner Side, producer Aldo
Lonobile (Secret Sphere), Frontiers Ре! 022 (25)
Schemata Theory Unity In Me, producer Justin Hills
(Sikth), schematatheory.com.

POP
222 Max Pope's latest, producer JD Reid
(Mabel), Virgin.

POST/PUNK

r (2) Wild Daughter /nternal Litter,
co-producers John Gosling (Psychic TV), Jim Whelan (23
Skidoo), [TBC].

ROCK

(28) Bad Suns Apocalypse Whenever,
producer Eric Palmquist (Thrice), Epitaph February (4)
Los Bitchos / et The Festivities Begin!, producer Alex
Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), City Slang.

SOUL
vember (12) Allen Stone Apart, producer Ryan
Hadlock (Brandi Carlile), ATO.

ALANA HAIM COOPER HOFFMAN SEAN PENN ТОМ WAITS
BRADLEY COOPER BENNY SAFDIE

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

HAIM’s Alana Haim (left) stars with Sean Penn

the millennium?

| got married, had two boys, changed jobs, lived in

Asia for two years. And I’ve played from two to 20,000
people along the way — including squatter shows

in Germany, and The Viper Room, Los Angeles. We
were soundchecking there and this dude walked in,
completely wasted, screaming for Johnny Depp. It was
Tom Petty! We asked if he wanted to come to the show
and he said, “Hell, no!”

Who’s been the biggest inspiration along the way?
The band members. For years, no one believed in
anything we did. An A&R guy was always on the edge

of signing us, and he wanted to hear demos for years.
Then, one day, he said, “I’m not interested in you апу
more. | want to sign The Strokes.” As for Aeon Station,
it's been my wife, Mary Ann, and my little boy, Ryder.

If you love what you do and you're doing it for love,
don't stop. Music enables escape from the pressures of
life. | still enjoy that rush of excitement from writing new
songs, and | don't see any reason to stop.

Aeon Station Observatory CD, blue LP are on Sub
Pop, 10 December.

NEWS

Marillion's Steve Rothery Band Live
In London 2CD/BD, Shepherd's Bush
Bush Hall/November 2014, Islington
Assembly Hall, January 2017, Racket,
5 November. Bl lan Carr's Nucleus’
120-track Live At The BBC 12CD,
1970-91, Repertoire, 22 November.
Ozric Tentacles /ravelling The Great
Circle /CD/book box, with Pungent
Fffulgent, Erpland, Strangeitude,
Jurassic Shift, Kscope 14 January 2022.
Due: November (5) Gong Live At The
Gong Family Unconventional Gathering
DVD, 2CD, G-Wave, McDonald &
Giles, Panegyric, Nurse With Wound
Surveillance Lounge 2CD, Dirter,

Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman Dark
Fables, Alan Simon Excalibur V, Spirit
Of Unicorn (12) Grateful Dead Dick's
Picks Vol 19 3CD (19) Road Trips Vol
2 No 1 2CDs, Real Gone, Converge
Bloodmoon: I1, Epitaph, Robert Fripp
Music For Quiet Moments 8CD, King
Crimson Music Is Our Friend 2CD,
Panegyric (26) Mogwai ZeroZeroZero,
Rock Action, Popol Vuh Seligpreisung,
Couer De Verre, Agape-Agape Love-
Love, BMG December (3) Dream
Theater When Dream And Day Unite
(Live), InsideOut 2022 Marillion An
Hour Before It’s Dark, Racket у
(4) Black Country, New Road Ants
From Up There, Ninja Tune, Cate Le
Bon Pompeii, Mexican Summer.

Pretenders red LP; Deluxe 3CD, five
bonuses, 19-track Demos & BBC In
Studio (nine unissued), 19-track Live
(seven unissued), // red, white LPs;
Deluxe 3CD, 13-track Studio Demos,
Singles & Alternates (six unissued),
18-track Live At Santa Monica Civic
September 4 1981 (three unissued),
500 pre-orders with print, via shop.
thisisdig.com, 5 November. Ш Tears
For Fears’ first set in 1/ years,

The Tipping Point CD, LP, green LP,
Deluxe CD with bonus, Super Deluxe
CD, three, Concord, 25 February
2022. ЕШ Michael Buble Christmas
Super Deluxe box, including 2CD,
seven bonuses, green LP, DVD with
making-of, book, lithograph, Christmas
paper/cards/ornament, Warners, 19
November. Ш Gabriel Szatan’s Daft
Punk book, After Daft, is on John
Murray Press in 2023. Ш Soft Cell
*Happiness Not Included yellow LP,
picture disc LP, cassette; Deluxe CD/
book with video, softcell.timstor.es, 25
February 2022. 8 The Communards
Communards 35th Anniversary
16-track 2LP, 30-track 2CD, London,
3 December. 8 Westlife Wild Dreams
Deluxe, four bonuses, Polydor, 26
November. Due: | r (Б) T.Rex
The Alternative Singles Collection 2CD,
Easy Action, The Searchers A & B
Sides 1962-67 2CD, BGO, Sinitta,
Cherry Pop (12) Falco Emotional 3CD,
Warners, Elvis Costello Mighty Like

A Rose, Music On CD (19) Matt Goss
The Beautiful Unknown, Lewisham,
Adele 30 CD, 180g 2LP, Columbia
(26) Shakatak The Collection 2CD,
Secret ег (10) Marie Osmond
Unexpected, Oliveme | 2
(11) King & Country What Are We
Waiting For?, Curb. >

Photo (Aeon Station): Ebru Yildiz

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Stranglers Jen, with bonuses, Music On
CD, З December. Bl Propagandhi Today's
Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes CD, LP,
remixed/four bonuses, Fat Wreck, 12
November. Due: November (5) A Certain
Ratio Loco Remezclada, Mute (19) Crass’
Penny Rimbaud/Youth Corpus Mei, One
Little Independent December (17) Brix
Smith & Marty Wilson-Piper Lost
Angeles, Grit Over Glamour (31) Jello
Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of
Medicine /ea Party Revenge Porn,
Alternative Tentacles, TV Smith Lockdown
Holiday, Easy Action, Nikki Sudden /he
Bible Belt, Troubadour, The Adverts Cast
Of Thousands 2CD, Fire.

Slinky Vagabond King Boy Vandals CD,
LP, with Midge Ure (Ultravox), Dave
Formula (Magazine), Richard Fortus
(Psychedelic Furs), David Torn (David
Bowie), Tony Bowers (The Durutti
Column), Martin Turner (ex-Wishbone
Ash), slinkyvagabond.net, 6 December.
Midge Ure /n A Picture Frame hardback
photobook, Chrysalis, 18 November.

Е Lee Aaron Almost Christmas, two
bonuses, Metalville, 26 November. E
Ex-Trapeze’s Peter Goalby’s unissued
Easy With The Heartaches, Cherry Red,

5 November. Ш Bruce Springsteen [he
Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
13-track remixed 2CD/DVD, 2CD/BD,
2LP/poster, 10 unissued, New York,
september 1979, Sony, 19 November.
Е Held By Trees, with Martin Ditcham,
Robbie Mcintosh (Talk Talk), John
Mayer (The Pretenders), Laurence
Pedrous (Mark Hollis), Gary Alesbrook
(Kasabian), Mike Smith (Blur), Tim
Renwick (David Bowie), Tweed Jacket
Music, 2022. Bl Land Of Gypsies, with
Terry llous (ex-Great White), Eric Ragno
(The Babys). 8 Steve Gibbons Band
Rollin’ 5CD, 23 bonuses, Atomhenge,

3 December. Ш Zelbo In My Dreams,
with Dag Selboskar (Uriah Heep's Ken
Hensley), Frontiers, 10 December. E
Stone The Crows' 39-track Live At The
BBC ACD, Repertoire, 29 November. Ш
Lawrence Impey's Undercover: The Police
1977-78 photobook had a kickstarter.
com campaign to 31 October, subscribers
offered prints. Ш Bryan Adams So Happy
It Hurts CD, pink LP, box with LP, CD,
book, signed photo, BMG, 11 March
2022. В Cold Chisel Ringside 32-track
CD/29-track DVD, 27-track 3LP, June
2003, Universal, 12 November. В
Ex-Uriah Heep's John Sloman 7wo Rivers
is due via Red Steel, February 2022, with
Conspectus best-of/catalogue revamps to
follow. Ш ASIA The Official Live Bootlegs
Vol 1 10CD, with 1982 (Buffalo, NY,
USA), 1983 (Worcester, MA, USA), 2007
(Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2008 (Tokyo, Japan),
2010 (London, UK), BMG, 26 November.
E Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Mannthology 2 4CD/2DVD box, with book,
slipmat, Creature, 26 November. 8
Edoardo Genzolini The Who: Concert
Memories From The Classic Years, 1964-
76 book, Schiffer, 28 May 2022. Due:
November (5) Joe Satriani, Music On
CD (12) Emigrate The Persistence Of
Memory, [TBC], NRBQ Dragnet,
Omnivore, The Unity 7he Devil You Know
- Live, SPV, Mountain Live Іп The 705
3CD, Voiceprint, Pure Prairie League »

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Noteworthy guest-spots this month

Arca Kick Il, XL, 3 December: Sia.

Big Scenic Nowhere The Long Morrow, Heavy Psych
sounds, 14 January 2022: Reeves Gabrels

(Тіп Machine), Per Wiberg (Opeth).

Barrie-James Strange Desire CD, LP, Vacancy,

5 November: Lana Del Rey.

Steve Conte Bronx Cheer, Wicked Cool, 5 November:
Clem Burke (Blondie), John Conte (Southside Johnny),
Charley Drayton (Iggy Pop).

Coldcut @O CD, LP, Ninja Tune, 19 November: Imogen
Heap, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sigur Ros, Julianna
Barwick, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Laraaji.
Deana Carter Did | Shave My Legs For

This? 25th Anniversary Edition, two bonuses, Capitol
Nashville, 5 November: Lauren Alaina, Martina
McBride, Ashley McBryde, Vince Gill, Sara Evans.
Blood Red Shoes’ Laura-Mary Carter Town Called
Nothing CD, green LP, cassette, bandcamp.com,

3 December: Ed Harcourt, Jorma Vik (Eagles Of
Death Metal).

Ryan Culwell Run Like A Bull, Missing Piece, 28 January
2022: Will Kimbrough (Rodney Crowell).

Deap Vally Marriage, Cooking Vinyl, 19 November:
Jennie Vee (Eagles Of Death Metal),

KT Tunstall, Peaches.

Micki Free Turquoise Blue, Dark Idol, 4 February 2022:
Gary Clark Jr, Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Santana's
Cindy Blackman Santana, Andy Vargas,

Karl Perazzo.

Wu Tang-Clan's Ghostface Killah Supreme Clintele 2,
February 2022, [TBC]: Kanye West.

Jools Holland Pianola. Piano & Friends CD, 2LP,
Warners, 19 November: Herbie Hancock, David
Gilmour, Ruby Turner, Gregory Porter, Tom Jones,
David Sanborn, Nitin Sawhney, Trombone Shorty
(Jeff Beck), Pino Palladino (ex-The Who), Anna
Phoebe (ex-Trans-Siberian Orchestra).

AM Higgins Hymning, Victorialand, 5 November:
Casey Foubert (The Shins).

Infected Rain Ecdysis CD, LP, white LP, Napalm,

f January 2022: Heidi Shepherd (Butcher Babies).
Joan As Police Woman The Solution Is Restless, PIAS,
o November: Tony Allen.

Кер” Mo’ Good To Be 21Р, red, gold, silver, test-
pressing 2LPs, Rounder, 21 January 2022:

Kristin Chenoweth, Darius Rucker, Old Crow
Medicine Show.

Benjamin Lazar, 11A, 19 November: Joan Wasser
(Joan As Policewoman).

Mark Murdok Visitors From Another World, pre-orders via
cymbalicencounters(o gmail.com: Ric Parnell (Atomic
Rooster), Ron Howden, Derek Moore (Nektar), Alan
Childs (David Bowie).

Moldovan metallers, Infected Rain, get Butchered

John Mellencamp's latest, EMI, 2022:

Bruce Springsteen.

Kylie Minogue Disco CD, LP, Guest List Edition

2CD, ЗІР, 14 bonuses each; Deluxe 3CD/DVD/BD,
28 bonuses, plus videos, BMG, 12 November:

Gloria Gaynor, Jessie Ware.

Ex-Little Mix's Jesy Nelson's upcoming set, Republic,
2022: Sean Combs, Nicki Minaj.

Northtale Eternal Flame, Nuclear Blast, 12 November:
Kai Hansen (Helloween).

Once Human Scar Weaver CD, coloured LP, Absolute,
11 February 2022: Robb Flynn, Logan Mader
(Machine Head).

Ozzy Osbourne's upcoming set, Sony, 2022: Eric
Clapton, Jeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Tony lommi.
Octarine Sky Close To Nearby, 5 November, Uberwald:
Guthrie Govan (ex-ASIA), Simon Phillips (ex-Toto).
The Risen Dread Night Hag, [TBC], January 2022:
Andreas Kisser (Sepultura).

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra A Symphony Of Soul,
19 November, LP, coloured LP, 18 February 2022,
Motown: Mica Paris, Beverley Knight.

Star One Revel In Time 2CD, 3CD/BD/book/poster,
bonuses/5.1 mix, behind-the-scenes documentary,
InsideOut, 18 February 2022: Steve Vai, Nightwish's
Floor Jansen.

Smile Phantom Island, Chimp Limbs,

19 November: Robyn.

Sega Bodega Romeo, bandcamp.com, 12 November:
Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Split Enz Forenzics 11-track LP, 16-track CD, 2022,
[[BC]: Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music).

Blake Shelton Body Language Deluxe, four bonuses,
Warners, 3 December: Brooks & Dunn.

Spiritworld Pagan Rhythms, Century Media, 2022:
Thomas Pridgen (ex-The Mars Volta).

Frank Turner FTHC CD, LP, red, picture disc LPs, two
variant-design cassettes; Deluxe CD, six bonuses,
Polydor, 11 February 2022: Dominic Howard (Muse),
Пап Rubin (NIN), Jason Isbell.

Harrison Whitford Afraid Of Nothing, Screwdriver,

12 November: Phoebe Bridgers.

Barry Waldrep And Friends Celebrate Tony Rice CD,
2LP, barrywaldrep.com, 24 December: Rodney
Crowell, Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule), Vince Gill, Jim
Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris, Spooner Oldham.
Wicked Sensation Outbreak CD, orange LP, ROAR, 17
December: David Reece (ex-ACCEPT), Gus G (Firewind).
Yova Nine Lives, Cargo, 12 November: Daniel
O’Sullivan (The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess), Terry
Edwards (Nick Cave), David Rhodes (Kate Bush), Anna
Phoebe (Roxy Music), Alex Thomas (BJ Cole), lan
Olliver, Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey), BJ Cole.

Photo (InfectedRain): Victoria Wonka

Auction houses around the world

Everybody's got
something to sell

Low-number Ihe Beatles album on the auction block

opecial Auction Services of Newbury have a fascinating item from The Beatles
coming under the hammer at their auction on 16 November, writes /an Shirley.
It’s а copy of The Beatles’ "White Album", numbered 0000002 on the sleeve.

It was thought that only The Beatles and their close inner circle had copies of
the first five numbers of the album, but this copy turned up in the collection of a
collector who recently passed away and is now being sold by their family.

As we know, Ringo's personal number 0000001. sold for $790,000, and
another 0000002 sold for $81,250 in 2016. We hold our breath to see what
this one may go for.

See specialauctionservices.com.

On 28 September, a John Lennon unissued cassette sold via Bruun
Rasmussen Auction House, Denmark, for £5,700. Тһе 26 October Bonham's
Los Angeles Music Memorabilia auction included a Prince coat, Bruce
Springsteen handwritten lyrics, Jimi Hendrix shirt. 8 September auctions by
ICZ, Palm Harbor, Florida, included (23) signed Patsy Cline ukulele, signed
guitars from Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Highwaymen (30) The Doors, Stevie
Ray Vaughan, October (6) signed drumsticks from Ringo Starr, Phil Collins,
Charlie Watts, John Bonham, Dave Grohl, Def Leppard, Levon Helm,
Grateful Dead. Ш In September, One Direction's Liam Payne's 9,170 sq

ft, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house in 2.9 acres in Surrey was offered via
Mountrange Heritage for £6.5 million. 8 In September, Rihanna's 7,130 sq

ft, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house with games room, cinema, pool, .44
acres, in Hollywood Hills, was offered via The Agency for $7.795 million, while in
October, Marilyn Manson's 2,/11 sq ft, three-bedroom, three-bathroom house
in Hollywood Hills was on its books. Ш In September, Eric Prydz’s 6,200 sq ft,
six-bedroom, six-bathroom house with pool, studio, cinema, gym, sauna, spa, .89
acres, in Hollywood, was offered by Douglas Elliman for $5.895 million. Bl The 10
August auction by pristineauction.com included an Elvis Presley 195 / contract
to buy Graceland, Memphis, which made $114,660. В The 22 September
auction included signed drumheads from Ramones, Ariana Grande, signed
guitars from Stray Cats, CSNY, Kris Kristofferson, Eric Clapton, Herb Alpert,
Imagine Dragons, Train, Bruce Springsteen, Kacey Musgraves, Miranda
Lambert, AC/DC, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fall Out Boy, Spinal Tap,

The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce, Brian Wilson, Stevie
Wonder, Avenged Sevenfold, Lou Reed, Journey, Roger Waters, Toby Keith,
REM, U2, Steve Miller, Sex Pistols, Edgar Winter,
Alanis Morissette, Motley Crue, Anthrax, Willie
Nelson, Alice Cooper, Goo Goo Dolls, Slash, Blue
Oyster Cult, Van Halen, Blues Traveler, The Clash,
Mick Jagger, James Taylor, Jon Bon Jovi, Adele, Faith
Hill, Dave Grohl, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Orianthi,
Jason Aldean, Joe Satriani, Billy Joel, Poison, Creed,
Slipknot, Reba McEntire, Steve Earle, Randy Travis,
Barenaked Ladies, The Kinks, Celine Dion, Vince

Gill, Merle Haggard, Travis Tritt, Charley Pride. The
26 September auction included signed guitars from The
Highwaymen, Simon & Garfunkel, Taylor Swift, Keith
Richards, Johnny Cash, Queen's Brian May, KISS, Joni

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Artwork, photos and ephemera оп public display |

An exhibition of The Beatles іп India, with documents, photos,
audio-visual installations, is at Casa De La India, Casa Del Puente
Colgante, Valladolid, Spain, to 7 November. The John Lennon/
Yoko Ono Growing Freedom exhibition of their artwork, with
multi-media installations, is at Vancouver Art Gallery, Hornby
Street, Vancouver, Canada, to 2 May 2022. В The St Louis
Sound exhibition of 200-plus artefacts is at Missouri History
Museum, Lindell Blvd, St Louis, to 22 January 2022. В The
Techno art exhibition on dance culture is at Museion Bezon,
Piazza Piera Siena, Bolzano, Italy, to 16 March 2022. Ш Davey
Brown's The History Of House art exhibition on house music tours
the UK, US and Europe through November into 2022. Bl Laurie
Anderson's The Weather art exhibition of photos, paintings,
multi-media installations is at Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture
Garden, Independence Avenue, Washington DC, to 31 July 2022.
ш The Wes Anderson The French Dispatch film/soundtrack has ап
exhibition at 180 Studios, Strand, London, to 15 November. E
The 1971: Ihe Golden Age Of Rock & Roll photo exhibition is at
Morrison Hotel Gallery, Prince Street, New York, to 18 November.

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NEWS

Mitchell, BB King, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, Pearl Jam, Phil Collins,
Sting, Aretha Franklin, Ronnie Wood, The Beach Boys, Morrissey, Kid Rock,
Cher, Jack White, The Killers, Guns N' Roses, Post Malone, The Black
Crowes, Maroon 5, Metallica, Don McLean, Phish, Jackson Browne, Brad
Paisley, Shania Twain, Matchbox 20, Nirvana, Jethro Tull, Tim McGraw, Ice
Cube, Grateful Dead, Randy Newman, John Fogerty, Nick Cave, Pink Floyd,
Henry Rollins, David Byrne, Keith Urban, Snoop Dogg, The Clash, Carrie
Underwood. E On 29 September, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan offered
100-plus items via reverb.com, including guitars, synthesisers, pre-amps, while
Peter Frampton had 30-plus items from 13 October, including guitars, amps,
pedals. 8 In September, The Libertines’ Gary Powell offered digital artwork NFTs
via serenade.co and, on 29 September, Evanescence auctioned an Echoes
From Ihe Void NFT digital sculpture via sweet.io. In October, Dillinger Escape
Plan offered the first of 12 unique digital artwork NFIs via foundation.app. 8

In September, Carlos Santana’s 3,960 sq ft, four-bedroom, four-bathroom
house in Tiburon, San Francisco, was sold via Compass for $5.52 million, Motley
Crue’s Nikki Sixx’s 10,300 sq ft, five-bedroom, six-bathroom house in Westlake
Village, California, went for $5.18 million, and P!nk offered her 4,320 sq ft,
four-bedroom, three-bathroom house with flat, garden, in Malibu, for $14.995
million. Æ On 6 November, ha.com offers jackets from Michael Jackson,
Buddy Holly, George Harrison record award, Motley Crue handwritten lyrics.
E The omegaauctions.co.uk Showcase Auction of music memorabilia and Guitar
Auction are on ЗО November. Ш Les Paul's No 1 guitar was offered via Christie's
New York on 13 October, estimate, $150,000. Bl Kelly Clarkson's 10,108

sq ft, eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom house with cinema, pool, gym, spa, games
room, guesthouse, in San Fernando Valley, California, sold in September for
$8.24 million. BI A Slash (Guns М” Roses) hat, guitar were offered for charity

via e.givesmart.com, 6 October. Ш KISS’ Gene Simmons’ 13,500 sq ft house
with pool, tennis courts, two acres, in Benedict Canyon, California, was sold in
September via Douglas Elliman for $16 million. Bl On 25 September, a Johnny
Ramone guitar sold via rrauction.com for $937,500. Bl In September, Robbie
Williams offered his 20,000 sq ft, seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom Compton
Bassett House, Wiltshire, with football pitches, tennis courts, pools, helipad,
cottage, flats, spa, gym, sauna, via Knight Frank, for £6.75 million. W The
Queen pop-up shop on London's Carnaby Street is open to 8 January 2022

and includes signed guitars, limited-run /"s. Ш Kanye West's six sq miles
Monster Lake Ranch, Cody, Wyoming, was offered in October for $11 million.

E [he juliensauctions.com Musicares 30 January 2022 auction includes Dolly
Parton, Katy Perry dresses, Lionel Richie, Depeche Mode, Stone Temple
Pilots' Scott Weiland jackets, Slash, Jason Aldean hats, Demi Lovato

boots, Metallica, Tim McGraw, Jeff Beck guitars. Bl A signed Stereophonics
drumskin was offered 15 October via chaucerauctions.co.uk. BI Memorabilia
from Rick Wakeman’s personal collection/unissued She CD are available via
rickwakemansmusicemporium.com.

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KISS Destroyer album given special

anniversary treatment

KISS Destroyer is reissued on its 45th anniversary

as a Deluxe 2CD, 2LP and yellow, red 2LP, as
well as a Super Deluxe 4CD/BDA box. The 2LP
has 12 bonuses (10 unissued), while the 2CD

adds 16 tracks (14 unissued). The box includes

the 15-track Demos (nine unissued), 22-track

Outtakes/Alternative Versions/Mixes/Single Edits

(15 unissued), unissued 12-track Live In Paris

L'Olympia 22 Мау 1976 and BDA with 5.1/Dolby /% ^ |

Atmos mixes by Steven Wilson. Additionally,
there's an iron-on logo, three stickers, three
posters, four photos, two flyers, four trading

cards, two blueprints, a repro tour programme,

newspaper, book.

KISS Destroyer Deluxe 2CD, 2LP, coloured
2LP, Super Deluxe 4CD/BDA, Warners,
19 November.

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Cat Stevens album given 50th
anniversary box set revamp

Cat Stevens’ Teaser & The Firecat marks
its half-century in November with a CD, LP
and Deluxe 13-track 2CD. Additionally,

a Super Deluxe box has 41 unissued cuts
and 21 video clips, plus an alternate version
of the album and a live set on vinyl, repro
period book, a new hardback, and a /". The
package includes a 1/-track 2CD of Demos,
Alternate Versions & Bonus Tracks, 20-track
Live On Air, UK, 1971 CD, 13-track Live In
Montreux 2nd May 1971 CD, 11-track Live
1971 LP and Alternative Versions LP.

Cat Stevens Teaser & The Firecat CD,
LP, Deluxe 2CD, Super Deluxe 4CD/
BD/2LP/7"/books box, are on Island,
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NEWS

Rock continued

Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead,
NY, April 30 1978 2CD, Retroworld,
LA Guns Checkered Past, Frontiers,
Hollywood Raw 2CD, Pretty Boy Floyd
Rock & Roll, UFO Cleveland 1982,
Great White The Essential 2CD,
Cleopatra (19) The Mission Collected
3CD, Music On CD, Eagles Of Death
Metal Presents: A Boots Electric
Christmas, Universal (26) Vanilla
Fudge's Mark Stein There’s A Light,
Deko, Wishbone Ash Portsmouth
1980, Madfish, The Temperance
Movement Covers & Rarities, Earache,
Leaf Hound Growers Of Mushroom/
Unleashed 2CD, [TBC] December (3)
Lucifer's Friend The Last Stand,
Lucifer's (17) John Fogerty, The Blue
Ridge Rangers, Again, BMG February
2022 (25) Guns М” Roses Hard Skool,
gnrmerch.com.

The childhood home of Bob Marley and

Bunny Wailer, Second Street, Trench
Town, Jamaica, burned down on 18
September. The property, a national
heritage site, was being restored by the
Tourism Product Development Company
as a Wailers Museum, but that’s now
on hold. Due: November (12) Lee
“Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters
Return Of The Super Ape, Cleopatra
December (3) Dennis Brown Rare
Grooves Reggae Rhythm & Blues Vol 2
2CD, Graylan.

Soundtrack

Cyrano OST CD, LP, white LP, featuring
The National’s Aaron and Bryce
Dessner, Matt Berninger, Decca, 10
December. Due: November (11) Henry
Mancini Movies & Moods 2CD, Acrobat
(19) John Barry The Tamarind Seed,
Silva Screen.

Cat Stevens box, including alternate album

Soul/Funk

November (12) WAR Greatest Hits 2.0
2CD, Rhino (19) Incognito Always
There 8CD, Mercury (26) Grover
Washington Jr /n The Name Of Love
5CD, Soulmusic, Graham Central
Station Release Yourself, Music On CD
TBC MF Robots Break Тһе Wall, [TBC].

Elvis Presley Back In Nashville
21-track 2LP, blue 21Р, 82-track ACD,
Legacy, Christmas With, Acrobat, 12
November. November (5) Johnny
Mathis Love Story/You've Got A Friend/
The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)/
Song Sung Blue 2CD, BGO, Nat "King"
Cole Cole Espanol, New Continent,
The Everly Brothers One Night At The
Royal Albert Hall 2CD, Cleopatra, Vic
Damone /he Mercurial Mr Damone,
Bing Crosby Bing's ABC Of Life,
Sounds Of Yesteryear (11) Johnny

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office in New York, Geneva and Vienna by the UN Postal
Administration. The souvenir sheets feature the three
original photos on which Morck's designs are based.

John Lennon's Imagine had its half-century
commemorated on the UN International Day Of Peace, 21
september. The UN issued 150,000 panes of 20 stamps
and 20,000 souvenir sheets, featuring images of Lennon.
Three photos of him were used by Swedish artist Martin
Morck to create three stamps, each denominated for a UN

To obtain stamps, sheets, visit unstamps.org/shop/
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Plan В

UK government plans for Covid concert passports, Wales introduces them

On 14 September, the UK government confirmed that if Covid data deteriorated
in terms of cases, hospital admissions and deaths, putting a greater strain on
the NHS, new measures, including proof of Covid double vaccination, may be
required for those seeking to attend concerts. This could be done "at short
notice in response to concerning data. Therefore, in order to help businesses
prepare their own contingency plans, the government will shortly publish more
detail about the proposed certification regime that would be introduced. The
government would seek to give businesses at least one week's notice before
mandatory vaccine certification came into force".

Michael Kill, CEO of the UK Night Time Industries Association, responded:
"Businesses up and down the country are once again thinking that they may
have to make an enormous, detrimental change to their operating model in the
future, if infection rates increase. The idea that a vast, logistically challenging
policy can be kept in 'reserve' and implemented at one week's notice is absurd.
It's no way to treat the sector. It feels like ministers have no idea what it's
like to run a business, let alone the types of businesses we represent. We've
already seen the impact of the potential implementation of Covid passports,
with an estimated 30% drop in trade. This policy would do so much [more]
damage. Тһе government needs to recognise the sacrifices made by businesses
within hospitality and the night-time economy. Businesses need certainty if
they're to have the confidence to invest and rebuild our industry. To give them

this certainty, the government should be clear that vaccine passports have been

scrapped completely and aren't part of any Plan B."

On 5 October, the Welsh Senedd voted 28-27 for Сома passports, with
attendees at large public gatherings requiring proof of double vaccination or
a negative lateral flow test within the previous 48 hours. The scheme applies
to nightclubs, indoor venues with 500-plus standing, outdoor with 4,000-plus,
and all venues with 10,000-plus. First Minister Mark Drakeford noted that, "We
hope introducing the requirement to show a Covid pass will help keep venues
and events open. Showing a pass is already part of our collective effort to keep
businesses open, with some major events, such as the successful Green Man
Festival, using it. We'll continue to work closely with all businesses affected, to
ensure a smooth introduction and operation of this system."

Never-released

Nirvana landmark gets 30th anniversary
box set overhaul

Nirvana Nevermind 30th Anniversary 15-track LP/7" and 16-track CD are

out in November. In addition, 5CD/BD and 180g 8LP/7" boxes offer 94 (70
unissued) and / / tracks (53 unissued), respectively. Ihe CD/BD edition takes
in the 1/-track video, Live Іп Amsterdam Netherlands (Paradiso November 25
1991), while both feature the audio, plus 12-track Live In Del Mar California
(Pat O'Brien Pavilion, Del Mar Fairgrounds, December 28 1991), 17-track
Live In Melbourne Australia For Iriple J (The Palace, St Kilda, February

1 1992) and 16-track Live In Tokyo, Japan (Nakano Sunplaza, February

19 1992).

Nirvana Nevermind 30th Anniversary CD, LP/7", Super Deluxe 5CD/BD,
180g SLP/7" boxes are on Polydor, 12 November.

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On 7 October, Northern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan announced that
standing at events in indoor venues would be allowed from 14 October, with
nightclubs re-opening from 31 October. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Covid pass
checks were underway from 1 October, with legal enforcement from 18
October, but Mike Grieves of the Night Time Industries Association stated that
its adoption had been a “complete shambles”. Finally on the events front,
The Independent Label Market record fair is on at Coal Drops Yard, King's
Cross, 2/ November, while Louder Than Words is at Inside Hotel, First Street,
Manchester, 12-14 November, including Q&As with Will Sergeant (Echo
& The Bunnymen), Barry Adamson (Magazine), Frank Bello (Anthrax) and
John llisley (ex-Dire Straits).

Michael Kiwanuka:
Welsh festival Covid
pass required

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Frank at 50

Tony Palmer s Frank Zappa film
given box set makeover

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels film celebrates a half-century with 34-track
2CD and 180g 2LP editions, plus an expanded box with slipcased book,
key-ring and motel door hanger. It includes an expanded 2CD with nine-
track Demos, Second Movement — Rock Music, eight-track Demo Sessions
Outtakes; 33-track Dialog Protection Reels CD; CD with seven more, plus
22-track Swill Pt 1; 36-track Alternates & Outtakes CD; 14 more, plus
nine-track Swill Pt 2 CD.

Frank Zappa 200 Motels 50th Anniversary 2CD, 180g 2LP, red 180g
2LP, Super Deluxe box are on Zappa, 19 November.

Frank's flick with Ringo Starr and
Keith Moon re-emerges

Photo (Michael Kiwanuka): Olivia Rose

Reap the Benefit

Jethro Tull's Benefit remixed, remodelled

Jethro Tull's Benefit hits 50 with a 4CD/2DVD including 100-page book.

It features the Original Album CD with Steven Wilson Stereo Remixes,
including seven-track Associated Recordings; 21-track Additional Associated
Recordings CD of mono/stereo mixes and two radio spots; eight-track Live
At Tanglewood 19/0 Steven Wilson Stereo Remix CD; 11-track Live At The
Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1970 (Mono) CD; DVD with Steven Wilson 2013
remix/five bonuses, plus 5.1 mix with three; DVD with video of Tanglewood,
1970, plus Steven Wilson 2022 stereo/5.1 mixes.

Jethro Tull Benefit 50th Anniversary Enhanced 4CD/2DVD box is on
Chrysalis, 5 November.

Jethro Tull get the
Steven Wilson once-over, twice

Pigs do fly

Pink Floyd s Animals reinterpreted by
all-star cast

Animals Reimagined — A Tribute To Pink Floyd is out in November,
featuring Nick Van Eede (Cutting Crew), Martin Barre (ex-Jethro

Tull), Graham Bonnet (ex-Rainbow), Vinnie Moore (UFO), Kasim
Sulton (Utopia), Jordan Rudess, James LaBrie (Dream Theater),

Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Al Di Meola (Return To Forever), Joe
Bouchard (ex-Blue Oyster Cult), Patrick Moraz (ex-The Moody Blues),
Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Rick Wakeman (ex-Yes), Jan
Akkerman (ex-Focus), David J (Bauhaus), Carmine Appice (Vanilla
Fudge), Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood (Yes), Albert Lee, Arthur Brown.
It's followed by a vinyl LP edition in 2022, as well as an auction of a NFT
digital version of James McCarthy's six-fold digipak CD artwork.

Animals Reimagined - A Tribute To Pink Floyd is on Cleopatra,
19 November.

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Bowie boxes

Fifth in David Bowie archive box series
due, plus unissued birthday set

The fifth in Parlophone's ongoing David Bowie box set campaign is out in
November, while his unissued Toy album marks his birthday in the new year.
The 5. Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001 11CD includes 128-page book, Black Tie
White Noise, The Buddha Of Suburbia, 1.Outside, Earthling, 'Hours...', unissued
Toy CDs, exclusive 20-track BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27th, 2000
Expanded 2CD, exclusive 39-track Re:Call 5 3CD; while the 18LP edition has
an 84-page book, Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha Of Suburbia, 1.Outside,
Earthling, unissued Toy 2LPs, 'Hours...' LP, BBC Radio Theatre, London, June
2/th, 2000 Expanded ЗІР, Re:Call 5 ALP. They're followed in 2022 by Toy (Toy:
Box) 3CD and 6 x 10" LP boxes, including 12-track Alternatives & Extras (six
unissued), 13-track Unplugged & Somewhat Electric.

David Bowie 5. Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001 11CD, 18LP boxes,
26 November, Toy (Toy: Box) 3CD, 6 x 10” LP boxes, 7 January 2022,
on Parlophone.

David Bowie: the archive
trawl continues

Cherry prize

Cherry Red label
proffers upcoming
acquisitions

In September, the
Cherry Red label
announced that it'd
acquired the catalogue
of 60s/70s hitmaker/
producer, Miki
Dallon. Among the
acts that he oversaw
that will re-emerge

on new releases are
Salamander, Elias
Hulk, Dando Shaft,
Julian's Treatment,
Julian Jay Savarin,
Upp, Christine
Harwood, JJ Jackson,
Bobby Wells, The
Showstoppers, The
Chi-Lites, Neil Christian & The Crusaders, Scots Of St James, The

Drag Set, Our Plastic Dream, The Deputies, The Jeeps, Joyce Bond,
Greyhound, Charge and New York Dolls. Also due are Chris Farlowe Out
Of The Blue, Born Again, Waiting In The Wings, As Time Go By, The Voice,
Glory Bound, Farlowe That!, Hotel Eingang, Live In Berlin and Hungary For
The Blues; Miller Anderson's solo Bright City, Bluesheart, Chameleon, From
Lizard Rock, Through The Mill and a Hemlock set; The RAH Band, The
Crunch & Beyond, Going Up, Mystery, Something About The Music, Upper
Cuts, plus remixes/unissued cuts; Blah Blah Blah Gold, Stripey, Green, MR
1, Wayay, Camouflage, 30th Anniversary; Hawkwind and solo Dave Brock,
including unissued 1977/78 live outings; Suzi Quatro Rock Hard, Unreleased
Emotion, Back To The Drive, In The Spotlight; Bonfire live/studio sets,
including as Саситеп; Plainsong’s catalogue; and Complex and The Way
We Feel, plus unissued cuts.

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unissued songs

Got any news? Send it to
tim.jones@metropolis.co.uk

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Red Dwarf actor
and BBC DJ,
Craig Charles,
on his latest
funk compilation

Tell us how the compilation came to be

on vinyl.

га done quite a lot of compilations over the
years, but not on vinyl, until my Trunk Of Funk Vol
1, in 2020. As vinyl now outsells CDs in many
cases, it made perfect sense to release it on
vinyl. And the first volume charted, too, which
was amazing.

Did you suggest the albums coming out
on vinyl?
All my own work, dear boy!

Did it take long to get the vinyl done?

These days it takes months, especially as major
record labels are pressing up sizeable quantities
of vinyl again. There's no new record-pressing
capacity anywhere, so there's a bottleneck. It's
a case of getting a number, taking a seat, and
waiting your turn.

“THESE DAYS IT TAKES MONTHS TO
GET VINYL DONE, ESPECIALLY AS

Vinylist

Did you get involved in putting the package
together?

Absolutely. | selected the tracks and the running
order, and | approved the design and photographs.
| want the whole thing to be a good-looking musical
journey for the listener.

Is there anything exclusive we should look out
for in the collection?

For Volume 2, | asked The Allergies and Smoove
& Turrell for exclusive re-edits. They both came
through, which was good of them. It's nice to have
something unique on the album.

Were you involved in the remastering?

The guys at Soul Bank Music take care of the
mastering and lacquer cutting, but | got sent test-
pressings to check and approve. Then, when the
finished copies arrived, | caressed and admired
them. Then played them to death. They’re like my
musical babies. | love them all.

Did anything stand out regarding the process?
Last year, a stack of LPs were delivered to my
house to be autographed, but, because of Covid,

| was stranded їп Barbados. | only just made it
back in time to sign them ready for the release
day, which gave the guys at Soul Bank Music a few
more grey hairs.

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Do you have anything else unissued in
your archive?

| do, but I’m not going to tell you and ruin the
surprise. But there are plans, and everything is
gonna be funky and on wax.

Is vinyl an important part of your

own collection?

Of course. All music formats have their uses and
good points, but people connect with vinyl records
on a very personal, basic level. Тпеу have both

a visual and tactile appeal. Compare being gifted
an LP with someone gifting you a music streaming
subscription. You'd think, "Oh, you don't really like
me, then?"

Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol 2 LP, CD are
on Soul Bank Music in January 2022. Craig
hosts a BBC Radio 6 Music weekday afternoon
show, 1pm-4pm.

This month: The Kinks Well Respected Kinks
It was a compilation on the Marble Arch label. | think it may
have been 12 shillings and 6 pence (aka 12/6) and | bought
it from WH Smiths in Harlow, Essex. | would have been seven
or eight. Га saved up my pocket money and played the record
endlessly. | even made a record player out of Lego (adapting
a stylus into the Lego) and subsequently ruined the record as

a result. Years later it was issued on CD in a cracking little box
set along with Sunny Afternoon (which | think was probably my
second record) and Kinda Kinks. A few years ago, | bought it
again in excellent condition for 50р in a charity shop, and,
wow, the vinyl is HEAVY (surprising for a budget label but |
guess that was the 605 for you). | also picked up another
copy of Sunny Afternoon but have never seen Kinda
Kinks on Marble Arch since. Maybe | should start
looking harder. Its.certainly not going to be
stocked іп WHasmaiths, though, is it?! g

David Rout

UPCOMING VINYL

RELEASES

She & Him A Very She & Him
Christmas silver LP/7”, CD, two
bonuses each, Merge, 12 November.

Popol Vuh Vol 2 — Acoustic &
Ambient Spheres 180g ДІР, with
Selispreisung, Coeur De Verre,
Agape-Agape Love-Love, Cobra
Verde, four bonuses, three prints,
two posters, BMG, 26 November.

The Weather Station

Ignorance (Deluxe) 21Р, nine
bonuses (two unissued), Fat Possum,
19 November.

Nicki Minaj Pink Friday pink 2LP;
Deluxe coloured ЗІР, eight bonuses,
Republic, 12 November.

Zéca Do Trombone Rota-Mar LP,
coloured LP, CD, two bonuses, Alter
Cat, 26 November.

Powerwolf Blood Of The Saints 10th
Anniversary 180g LP, orange, silver,
white, red, yellow, blue, flame LPs,
24-track 2CD, 34-track 3CD/book,
blue, violet, clear 3LP boxes, each

with flag, Metal Blade, 17 December.

The Three Tremors Guardians Of
Ihe Void, two variant sleeve LPs,
Steel Cartel, 8 November.

Roxette Joyride 30th Anniversary
50-track 41Р, ЗСО, 12 unissued
each, Rhino, 26 November.

Tame Impala The Slow Rush Deluxe

She & Him get festive in silver

box, with red 2LP, 2x12”, 7”, two
unissued cuts, calendar, booklet,
shopuk.tameimpala.com, 22
February 2022.

Marvin Gaye What’s Going On?
50th Anniversary 2LP, 10 bonuses,
Universal, 3 December.

The Mission Collected 180g ЗІР,
six bonuses, Music On Vinyl,

12 November.

Queen Studio Collection 18LP, with
Queen purple LP, // LP, cream LP,
Sheer Heart Attack red LP, A Night
At The Opera cream LP, A Day At
Ihe Races LP, News Of The World
green LP, Jazz red LP, The Game LP,
Flash yellow LP, Hot Space blue LP,
The Works red LP, A Kind Of Magic
cream LP, The Miracle turquoise LP,
Innuendo blue, purple 2LP, Made

releases to look out for

| Siv Disa
Dreamhouse
(Trapped Animal
TAR 037 VX, LP,
2021)

New Yorker-turned
Iceland resident Siv Disa unleashes
a truly special debut aloum, full of
beguiling, night-time pop. Through
her captivating vocals and warm
production, Disa and her
collaborator/producer Sam and the
Sea have crafted an intimate,
compelling record. There's a limited-
edition blue vinyl available from
independent shops, as well as a
“psychedelic” multi-coloured edition
from recordstore.co.uk, limited to
300 copies.

Teleman Sweet
Morning (Moshi
Moshi MOSHI
440 LPX, EP,
2021)

Now operating
as a three-piece,
much-loved London band Teleman

Forthcoming limited-run vinyl |

Nicki Minaj, іп the pink

In Heaven cream, purple 2LP, Virgin,
12 November.

Leaf Hound's Growers Of Mushroom
is due on green LP in 2022.

The Wedding Present have 24
Songs out as 12х7”, one per month
through 2022, via linktr.ee/24songs.
Christian Death Гле Dark Age
Renaissance Collection, Part 1:

Тһе Renaissance ALP, ACD, with
Catastrophe Ballet, Ashes, Atrocities,
The Scriptures, Season Of Mist,

10 December.

5 November Steve Earle Ghosts

Of West Virginia, Washington Square
Serenade, Townes The Basics, l'II
Never Get Out This World Alive,

Guy, Terraplane, The Low Highway
coloured LPs, Townes coloured 2LP,
New West; Corrosion Of Conformity
Blind 2LP, Red; Dropkick Murphys
Turn Up That Dial coloured LP,

have teamed up with Hot Chip
stalwarts Joe Goddard and Al Doyle
on this excellent new EP for the
feted Moshi Moshi label. This
meeting of minds has resulted in
an undeniable electronic edge
being applied to Teleman's usual
heartfelt indie anthems. The EP's
getting a limited pressing on light
blue-coloured vinyl.

Hana Vu

Public

Storage

(Ghostly

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As well as possessing an incredible
voice, LA-based Hana Vu Is а
prolific songwriter, whose
atmospheric leftfield pop feels
ready to soundtrack all manner of
movies. Songs like Gutter, Aubade
and Heaven are the initial
highlights on her glowing debut
release for Ghostly. In addition to
the "red marble" edition of the
vinyl which you can buy in the UK,
there's an "orange marble" version
avallable from Vinyl Me Please and
some "yellow marble" pressings for
Secretly Society members.

Charlie Ashcroft

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Dropkick Murphys; Connan
Mockasin Jassbusters Two LP, CD,
Mexican Summer; Gregory Porter
Still Rising LP, Blue Note; Idlewild
Warnings/Promises 2LP, Dig;
Donovan Fairytale 180g LP, Muddy
Waters King Bee blue 180g LP, The
West Coast Pop Art Experimental
Band Vol 3 — A Child's Guide To
Good And Evil white 180g LP, Music
On Vinyl; Primus Green Naugahyde
green 2LP, ATO; Fela Kuti London
Scene coloured LP, Partisan;
Mountain's Leslie West Silent
Night LP, Cleopatra; Dave Holland
Another Land yellow 2LP, Edition;
Foghat 8 Days On The Road 2LP,
Metalville; Eric Bell Band Lonely
Man 10" LP, Morgan Blue Town;
Hipsway 2021 LP, Last Night

From Glasgow.

12 November 7he Adventures

Of Robinson Crusoe blue 2LP,

Silva Screen; Kid Baltan & Tom
Dissevelt /he Fascinating World
Of Electronic Music LP, We Are
Busy Bodies; Belinda Carlisle

live Your Life Be Free ЗІР, green
180g 3LP, Demon; IDLES Crawler
LP, Coloured LP, Deluxe 45грт
180g 2LP, Partisan; Joe Louis
Walker Fclectic Electric coloured
LP, Pat Travers & Carmine Appice
The Balls Album LP, Cleopatra;
The Chieftains Chronicles 2LP,
2CD, Universal; Chicano Batman
Freedom 15 Free coloured LP,

ATO; St. Vincent Daddy’s Home
coloured LP, Loma Vista; Michael
Buble Christmas green LP/2CD/
DVD/book box, Reprise; A Certain
Ratio Loco Remezclada coloured
2LP, coloured 3LP, Mute; The
Flamin’ Groovies Jumpin’ In The
Night 180g LP, Music On Vinyl;
Paramore A// We Know Is Falling
silver LP, Fueled By Ramen; The
Chicks The Essential 2LP, Sony;
Poppy Flux coloured LP, Sumerian;
Cymande LP, Alaska; Porcupine
Tree Deadwing LP, Transmission;
HammerFall Renegade 2.0 yellow
LP, Nuclear Blast; UK Subs A Punk
Rock Anthology red, yellow 2LP,
Demon; BMX Bandits Star Wars
LP, Last Night From Glasgow; The
Durutti Column A Paean To Wilson
3LP, durutti.com.

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chip punk bands, their music
legacy has endured. Their first
single, We Vibrate/Whips And Furs,
was a delicious Mickie Most pop
production that hit the shops in
November 1976 (RAK 245, £15).
There was also the simultaneous
release of the chugging pub rock
Pogo Dancing/The Pose (RAK 246,
£10), issued as Chris Spedding
And The Vibrators.

Although hardcore punks were
not impressed with the latter,
The Vibrators secured a deal
with Epic records, who issued
their classic debut LP Pure Mania
in June 1977 (Epic EPC 8209/,
£30). Musically, the album was
more power pop than punk and
Epic worked hard to try to break
the band into the charts with
the release of the excellent Baby
Baby/Into The Future (1977,

EPC 5302, £10) and London
Girls/Stiff Little Fingers (197 7,
EPC 5565, £10).

As bass player Pat Collier
had left to form The Boyfriends,
Gary Tibbs was drafted in to
replace him and appeared on
their second LP, V2 (1978, EPC
82495, £30), another winning
collection of direct punky pop
tunes slightly harder in tone than
Buzzcocks who were beginning to
chart. Automatic Lover/Destroy
(1978, SEPC 6137, £7) looked
like it was going to chart high,
and though it only reached
No 35, the boys did get to
vibrate on Top Of The Pops.
Sadly, Dee D. Jackson’s Donna
Summer-esque Automatic Lover
(same title, different song) wiped
the floor with them on TOTP,
complete with dancing silver
robot, taking it all the way to the
Top 5. The last Epic Vibrators

single was the excellent Judy Says :

(Knock You In The Head)/Pure
Mania (1978, Epic EPC 6393,
£10), peaking at No 7O.

Gary Tibbs went on to join Roxy
Music and then Adam And The
Ants. As for The Vibrators, they
have kept going in various shapes
and forms. Тһеіг greatest single?
Released in 1980, it was Disco In

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19 November Sebastien Tellier
Politics LP, Record Makers;
Christian Death The Wind Kissed
Death LP, Season Of Mist; Art
Blakey [he Big Beat, Donald

Byrd Places And Spaces, Bobbi
Humphrey Fancy Dancer, Horace
Silver 6 Pieces Of Silver 180g LPs,
Blue Note; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Esperanto LP, Wewantsounds; Тһе
Meters' Leo Nocentelli Another
Side LP, CD, LITA; The Weeknd 7he
Highlights 2LP, XO; Gillian Welch &
David Rawlings All The Good Times
LP, Acony; Wiz Khalifa Rolling
Papers 2LP, Atlantic; Lucinda
Williams Lu's Jukebox Vol 5 LP,
Highway 20; Jackie Mittoo /he
Keyboard King At Studio One blue
2ІР, Soul Jazz; Steven Wilson Last
Day Of June 180g LP, blue 180g LP,
Pharoah Sanders Africa clear 180g
LP, John Mayall Wake Up Call 180g
LP, Guano Apes Planet Of The Apes

red 180g 2LP, Shocking Blue pink
180g LP, Music On Vinyl; Autechre
Chiastic Slide, LP5 LPs, Warp; Black
Label Society Mafia, Stronger
Тһап Death coloured 180g 2LPs,
Blessed Hellride coloured 180g LP,
E One; Colin Blunstone One Year
ALP, Sundazed; Inspiral Carpets
Ihe Beast Inside mauve 2LP, Mute;
Ringo Starr Change The World 10"
LP, Universal; Jah Wobble Metal
Box: Rebuilt In Dub silver, blue 2LP
boxes, CD, Bob Marley Trenchtown
rockers LP, Cleopatra; Charles
Mingus Тһе Black Saint And The
Sinner Lady LP, Verve; Fela Kuti
Live! red 2LP, Partisan; Ladyhawke
Time Flies LP, BMG; Katatonia
Dethroned And Uncrowned

LP, Peaceville.

23 November Stealing Sheep &
The Radiophonic Workshop La
Planéte Sauvage coloured LP, Fire.

NEWS

26 November Ful! Metal Jacket LP,
Mondo; Тһе Life Aquatic With Steve
Zissou blue 2LP, Disney; Popa Chubby
Back То New York City, Universal
Breakdown Blues 2LPs, Dixiefrog;
Buck Owens coloured LP, Sundazed;
BMX Bandits Life Goes On, Hipsway
LPs, Last Night From Glasgow; DAF
Nur Noch Einer LP, CD, Gronland:
Gerry Mulligan Night Lights 180g

LP, New Land; The Undertones West
Bank Songs 1978-83 pink, white 2LP,
Slade /n Flame coloured LP, The Dave
Clark Five Glad All Over white LP,

ELP Pictures At Ап Exhibition coloured
LP, Daryl Hall & John Oates live At
The Troubadour ЗІР, Goldfrapp Head
First purple LP, BMG; Deep Purple
Turning To Crime 2LP, clear 2LP, CD,
Earmusic; Magma BBC Londres 1974
red 180g 2LP, Stray Cats Live At
Rockpalast silver 180g ЗІР, Music On
Vinyl; Swamp Dogg Have You Heard
This Story? coloured LP, Alive; The
Groundhogs Roadhogs ЗІР, Fire;
Oscar Peterson A Пте For Love blue
3LP, Mack Avenue; Thelonious Monk
Live In Montreal 1965 Vol 1, Vol 2, Art
Blakey Golden Boy, James Brown The
Singles Vol 3 LPs, Honeypie; Tangerine
Dream Probe 6-8 LP, CD, Kscope; The
White Stripes Elephant, Icky Thump,
Get Behind Me Satan LPs, Third Man;
Dave Lee Roth Diamond Dave LP,
pink LP, CD, Cleopatra; Savatage
Power Of The Night LP, Ear Music; Fu
Manchu A Look Back coloured 2LP,

At The Dojo; The Primitives Lovely
blue LP, Galore red LP, Demon; Pat
Metheny Road To The Sun LP, BMG;
Broken Social Scene Fee/ Good Lost
ALP, Arts & Crafts.

1 December Beans On Toast
Survival Of The Friendliest LP,
beansontoastmusic.com.

3 December The Suicide Squad OST
LP, Mondi; LP CHURCHES LP, CD,
PIAS; Leo Abrahams Scene Memory
II LP, Figureight; The Larry Douglas
Alltet Dedications LP, clear, silver »

THE CRITTERS

YOUNGER GIRL

(LONDON AMERICAN HAR 8302, LP,
UK, 1967) £40

The US Vietnam draft derailed many a
burgeoning pop career. Among the unluckiest
must surely be 60s New Jersey group The Critters, who lost
no fewer than three members due to call-ups.

Around 1964 The Vibra-Tones were a garage/bar/covers
band comprising Jack Decker, Chris Darway, Kenny Gorka
and Jimmy Ryan, with Bob Podstawski on sax. The latter
invited his good friend Don Ciccone to audition. He joined
and the band became The Critters. Thanks principally to
Ciccone's contacts they secured deals with Kama Sutra
Productions and Kapp Records.

Although Ciccone was a prolific songwriter, their first
single release in December 1965 was a creditable version
of Jackie De Shannon's Children And Flowers, with Ryan
singing lead. It failed to chart but a version of John
Sebastian's Younger Girl, released in April 1966, reached
No 42 in the States.

In August came this fine debut album, trademark
harmonies abounding. Ciccone's songwriting sparked
other group members to contribute their own songs —
six by Ryan, two by Darway and two by Ciccone. One

of Ciccone's compositions, and their third
single, provided the group with arguably

| their finest moment: Mr Dieingly Sad was a
| gorgeous slice of warm sunshine pop, with
a fine vocal by Ciccone and more of those
beautiful harmonies.

All three single A- and B-sides appeared on
the album. But Podstawski had already been
called up, and Ciccone and Decker would follow. In fact,
Ciccone barely had time to write one final song (Everything
But Time) to make up the album listing before leaving the
group, the album only partially recorded.

Younger Girl reached No 147 in the US and three further
fine singles for Kapp would follow. By 1968, Ryan and
Gorka were the only originals, releasing two more albums
before finally splitting, though Ciccone would form a new
Critters band in 2007.

Ryan recalls that recording this first album "wasn't
the best experience. We had many arguments with
producer Artie Ripp about arrangements, NOT using studio
musicians etc. Many of the recordings were mixed in our
absence, and | was unhappy with the results, save for
Younger Girl and Mr Dieingly Sad, which were fine."

Mr Dieingly Sad remains an early soft rock/sunshine
pop classic. Ryan went on to work with Carly Simon, Cat
Stevens and many others.

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LPs, Azar Lawrence clear, white,
violet, grape LPs, LITA; Lull Moments
2ІР, Cold Spring; Fucked Up Year
Of The Horse 21Р, TankCrimes;
Godflesh Long Live The New Flesh
ALP, Avalanche; Train Christmas In
Tahoe coloured 2LP, Sunken Forest;
Can Live Іп Brighton 1975 gold

3LP, 2CD, Mute; Jerry Garcia Band
Live БІР, ATO; Eddie Hazel Game,
Dames, And Guitar Thangs coloured
LP, Real Gone; Eva Cassidy Live At
Blues Alley 45rpm 2LP, Blix Street;
Тһе Waterboys Room То Roam
45грт 180g 2LP, Chrysalis; Epica
Omega Alive 3LP, 2CD, Nuclear Blast;
Costa Blanca Viaje A Prantia LP, CD,
Altercat; Percy Mayfield Walking On
A Tightrope LP, Jerry Lee Lewis Last
Man Standing white 180g 21Р, Blue
Rondo A La Turk Chewing The Fat
blue LP, Demon.

10 December Jimmy Smith Home
Cookin’, Reuben Wilson Love Bug,
Herbie Nichols The Prophetic Vol
1 & 2, Kenny Cox /ntroducing
180g LPs, Blue Note; The Moody
Blues’ John Lodge Тһе Royal Affair
And After coloured LP, CD, BFD;
Anti-Flag Die For The Government
coloured LP, New Red Archive;
Baxter Dury Mr Maserati LP,
Heavenly; The Wombats Proudly
Present... This Modern Glitch 2LP,
Rhino; Mr Big's Paul Gilbert “TWAS
LP, CD, The Players Club; Shaggy
Christmas In The Islands 2LP, BMG;
Roger Sanchez Another Chance LP,
Sony; Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Barn Deluxe LP/CD/BD, Reprise.

17 December Killing Joke 2003
purple 2LP, Spinefarm; Seth
Lakeman Make Your Mark LP,
coloured LP/print, CD, Honour Oak;
Bernard Purdie Soul Is... Pretty
Purdie clear, brown, yellow, gold
180g LPs, LITA; The Meteors Doing
The Lord’s Work LP, Svart; 10,000
Maniacs Eldorado LP, Mobile Fidelity.

24 December Hot Chip’s Alexis
Taylor Silence LP, Orbistor.

31 December Don Cherry Organic
Music Theatre, The Summer House
Sessions LPs, Blank Forms; Skid
Row The Atlantic Years ТІР, Traffic’s
Dave Mason All Together Again LP,
BMG; Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Ghost Dog
LP, 36 Chambers; Beans On Toast
Knee Deep In Nostalgia LP, CD, BOT
Music; Ty Dolla $ign Featuring

2LP, Atlantic.

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age 11. It was The Who, who were
"my generation”. | didn't understand
а word of English, but their incredible
energy and directness fascinated
and electrified me. | listened to
the songs over and over again,

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7 January 2022 Years & Years
Night Call LP, CD, Polydor; Alabama
3 Exile In Coldharbour Lane coloured
2LP, One Little Independent; Alice

In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Atone
coloured LP, Label Exclusive.

14 January Eliminator Ancient Light

LP, red LP, CD, Cherry Red; Seth
Lakeman Freedom Fields 180g
2LP, Honour Oak; The Lumineers
Brightside LP, CD, Decca; Earthless
Sonic Prayer, Rhythms From

A Cosmic Sky, From The Ages LPs,
CDs, cassettes, Nuclear Blast;
Bonobo Fragments 2LP, clear,

red, test-pressing 2LPs, CD, Ninja
Tune; Cat Power Covers LP, silver
LP/7”, CD, Domino; Marco Beltrami
Venom: Let There Be Carnage red
180g LP, Music On Vinyl.

21 January Lawnmower Deth Blunt

Cutters LP, green LP, CD, Cherry
Red; Jackie McLean Destination
Out, Don Cherry Where Is Brooklyn?
180g LPs, Blue Note.

28 January Tokyo Blade Fury LP,

red LP, CD, Cherry Red; Tori Amos
Ocean Io Ocean 2LP, Decca; Eels

Extreme Withcraft LP, CD, E Works;
Trivium /n The Court Of The Dragon
ALP, Roadrunner.

February Vader Blitzkrieg In Texas:
Live 2005 LP, vader-store.com.

4 February Lady Gaga Dawn Of
Chromatica coloured LP, Interscope.

11 February Alt-J Тһе Dream LP,
red, pink, clear LPs, CD, cassette,
Canvasback; New Order Still clear
ALP, store.neworder.com.

18 February Joe Henderson /nner
Urge, Lee Morgan Caramba 180g
LPs, Blue Note.

25 February Johnny Marr Fever
Dreams Pts 1-4 2LP/CD/print,
white 2LP/CD/print, 2LP/cassette/
print, BMG.

4 March Delerium Faces, Forms &
Illusions, Morpheus, Syrophenikan,
Spiritual Archives, Stone Tower,
Spheres, Spheres ІІ white 2LPs,
CDs, Metropolis.

11 March The Boo Radleys Keep
On With Falling LP, CD, Boostr.

18 March Cassandra Wilson Blue

much to the

annoyance of

my neighbours.

In 1972, | finally

Saw the band, |

outside Zurich, Жии...
in the countryside. | climbed over
a hedge past Hell's Angels who were
guarding the gate, and | was so
happy to experience the songs

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The Beatles A Collection Of Oldies (But Goldies)

(Parlophone PMC 7016, LP, UK, 1966) £100

My very first album. | was 12 and was like a kid in a sweet shop. All those
fantastic songs in one place, although | must confess, I’ve never been that keen
on Michelle or Yesterday. But Paperback Writer and Eleanor Rigby showed how
their music was developing.

Various Artists Picnic (a breath of fresh air) (Harvest SHSS 1/2, LP, UK,
1970) £20

This album shaped my music taste for the rest of my life. From hard rock, through
folk, jazz, experimental, psych to orchestral and all points in between. Not a bum
track to be seen or heard. Deep Purple, Barclay James Harvest, Pretty Things,
Pete Brown, Roy Harper and 14 other outstanding artistes.

Deep Purple & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto For Group And
Orchestra (Harvest SHVL 767, LP, UK, 1970) £75

| can't believe this album doesn't get more credit and attention. Тһе musicianship
alone makes it a stand-out, particularly Ritchie Blackmore, who apparently didn't
want to do the gig. Faultless in my opinion and confirmed my new interest in
classical/orchestral music.

Jethro Tull This Was (Island ILP 985, LP, UK, 1968) £250

The underground takes the mainstream by the scruff of the neck and comes out
on top. The album cover alone was worth the price of admission as you could use
it to confuse your parents. The tracks themselves were exceptional.

Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Atlantic Hats 421-35, LP, Spain, 1969) £30
A holiday present from Spain and another album not given its due credit, despite
selling millions. The title track is an epic on a grand scale and the "supporting"
tracks are not too shabby, either: Flowers And Beads, Are You Happy and
Termination fill the hippie need. Jon Hawkins

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Light 'Til Dawn, Geri Allen Twenty
One 180g LPs, Blue Note; Santana
Blessings And Miracles 2LP, BMG.

21 May Olivia Newton-John
Physical LP/poster, green, red,
purple LPs/posters, Prism; Liam
Gallagher C'mon You Know

15 April Milt Jackson With John LP, CD, Warners.
Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke,
Lou Donaldson & The Thelonious
Monk Quintet (1948-52),

Bud Powell lime Waits 180g
LPs, Blue Note.

FIRST SPIN/MY TOP 5

If you have a reminiscence about
your first vinyl purchase, or would
like us to feature your Top 5 list
(along with catalogue details and
why you chose those records), please
send to paul.lester@metropolis.co.uk

22 April Jason Aldean Macon,
Georgia 3LP, BMG.

6 May Pennywise's Jim Lindberg
Songs From The Elkhorn Trail ІР,
CD, Epitaph.

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UK antiques sellers often harbour troves of records among their wares.

n 2018, BBC Radio 4 reported that "People no
longer go into antiques shops", contending that
they'd "rather scroll through something online".
Yet, more often than not, when visiting antiques
i shops, centres, fairs and markets, BBC TV's
Antiques Road Тпр and Bargain Hunt brush by
boxes, crates and piles of vintage LPs and /8s.
So, If antiques outlets are being frequented less by
shoppers than in the past, there's an opportunity
there for record collectors. For while a small
percentage of antiques retailers present their vinyl in
protective sleeves sporting hefty price tags, most are
not aficionados, offering those in the know the
chance of a bargain. So, where to begin?

Antiques-atlas.com offers an A-Z list of English
counties, plus regional guides for Scotland, Wales
and Ireland. If you click on an English county, for
example, Avon, a broad area is shown, taking in
neighbouring counties, as well as a list of sellers.
Such geographical listings make for a starting-point
for local/regional searching, and each listing provides
basic details about antiques centres, auction
houses, private dealers, carboots/markets, antique
shops and antique fairs. It's a case of clicking on
each, then using the contact details to interrogate
retailers as to whether they have any old records,
memorabilia, instruments or the like. Some antiques
centres' entries look worth a punt, such as "over
100 stalls", while others are less likely: "furnishings,
furniture, windows".

Sellingantiques.co.uk claims to be "the UK's
largest antiques website", with 619 dealers in its A-Z
(including their phone numbers). However, it lacks
any description of dealers' specialisms, so it'll be
a case of clicking on wares pictured, then calling the
seller. Similarly, antiques.co.uk features an A-Z of
hundreds of outlets, while offering just a business
name and address, though the Antiques Centres link
details retailer specialties.

Likewise, mbe.co.uk has a national Antiques
Dealer Directory with an A-Z of names and contact
details, though it's not arranged by county, and
antiques-info.co.uk has an A-Z list for England,
organised county by county, plus those in Wales and
Scotland with contact details. Antiques.com boasts
“20,000 antiques stores in 20 countries", with lists
of antique dealers, collectibles dealers, flea markets,
antique auctions, events/shows and antique malls.

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Clicking on a dealer reveals their contact
details, albeit without specific descriptions of
their inventories.

Antiqueable.com has links to sellers in Canada,
the US, Australia and the UK/Ireland, with separate
entries for England, Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland and Ireland. Click on each country and there's
an A-Z listing for it, along with short descriptions of
the types of antiques offered, plus phone numbers/
webpages. Hence, for example, in North Wales,

Gwersyllt's Acorn Antiques & Collectables boasts
“ап excellent assortment of old, vintage and antique
treasures". A phone call confirms that it has
a specialist record stall, plus others with records/
memorabilia, while nearby Marchwiel Antiques
Centre has a dedicated records stall.
Antiqueswebsite.co.uk proclaims a "one-
stop online resource for antiques, collectables,
memorabilia" and more, "with over 3,000
companies, including clubs, dealers, antique and
junk shops, and associations". Click on "Shops,
Deals, Auctions And Fairs" and dealers are listed —
though not in A-Z order — under Categories, and if
you click through, you'll find specialisms and contact
details. For instance, Torridge Auctions deals in
"music memorabilia/musical instruments", and
"music, film, TV and sports memorabilia", and
another click on the description reveals their address
in Bideford, Devon. Similarly helpful "music"-related
links detail: RAM Collectible Toys, Herne Bay, Kent;
Southern Counties Auctioneers, Netherhampton,
Salisbury; Stephen Roberts, Watton, Norfolk;
and Suffolk Heritage Antiques & Reclaim Centre,
Copdock, Ipswich. The top-bar menu features under
"Counties" an A-Z listing for England & Wales, while
a click on "Music, Film & TV Memorabilia" leads
to a list featuring Pilgrim's Antiques Centre, Dorking,
Surrey; The Swan At Tetsworth Antique Centre,
Oxon; Battle Orders Ltd, Polegate, Fast Sussex;
and Ewbank Auctions, Woking, Surrey.

S took a virtual trip to identify some potential prospects

Antiquestrailmap.co.uk lists antiques centres
(numbering 310), antiques shops (638), auction
rooms (179), established fairs & markets (65), flea
markets (40), vintage shops (4/6), and vintage hifi
& record shops (95). Clicking on each category
reveals outlet contact details, albeit not in A-Z order.
However, there are maps with pin graphics that,
when clicked on, reveal emporiums in a particular
area, while a click on "Locations" reveals retailers in
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Clicking on
a patch familiar to myself, Wales, its list includes
both counties and regions, though Clwyd (defunct as
a county since 1996) lists two emporiums, while two
of its successors, Flintshire and Denbighshire, have
two and three, respectively, and North Wales has
one! So, evidently, some double-checking will be
required to glean all the pertinent information. But
it's a start for an antiques road trip, and now all
you need is the £200 starting money, just like
they have on the telly!

Have you bought any records or music
memorabilia from an antiques outlet?
If so, let us know via rc.editorial@
metropolis.co.uk.

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DJ/producer/musician and one half of
Paranoid London, Gerardo Delgado, has
spent most of his life crate-digging
around the world from London to New
York. He has worked with some of the
most fabulous voices in the music
business, from Simon Topping (A
Certain Ratio) to Alan Vega (Suicide)
and recently produced a new album for
Shoko, a Japanese artist. His modern
take on acid house has made Paranoid
London sought-after producers and
remixers. Having supported the
Chemical Brothers, their live Paranoid
London show is a must-see from
Glastonbury to the Panorama Bar.
"Destroying crowds," they say, "is the
name of the game."

What do you collect, and why?

I don t really collect records anymore.
When you get older you tend to have all
the records you need. I collected in my
younger days like a man possessed — I was
out five days a week in record shops. I was
pretty obsessed, down to knowing what
time the vans delivered to the shops and
which shop would get certain records in
first, so I could get first dibs on them.
Having many friends who worked on the
other side of the counter also helped in
getting that golden gem in your bag. I then
ended up helping in Fat Cat records so was
able to get my young grotty hands on all
those wonderful British, Europe and
American amazing pieces of vinyl. It was

a young man's dream. Good times.

How big is your collection?

I would hate to admit to the amount of
records I own. But they are stored over three
houses in two countries. I still own all my
records, even the shit ones I can't let go — they
are all a part of me. I can tell you when and
where I bought every single one. My records
are like photos for other people. They take
them to remember special times or places they
visited. I can pull out any record from my
collection and it will have a story or a memory
for me. I can remember the first time I played
records out and certain clubs I was going to or
that B-side I just played because I thought it
was too good not to play to the world.

What do you think it is worth?

І have a rough idea but if my partner found
out she would sell them. To her they re just
bits of plastic and I’m not saying anything
different. Like any man or woman, what
records I think are brilliant and genius, to
someone else they ге not worth the vinyl
they re pressed on. I'm sure I have some very
expensive records — honestly, I’m not looking
on Discogs — people would love to own. But
I’m not sure my Italian house screamers
would have that many takers!

How and where do you store it?

I've lived in different countries so I have my
collection spread out. I lived in Spain for 20
years and the bottom floor of my three-storey
house is where we — myself and Quinn, my
partner in Paranoid London — planned world
domination. I have thousands of records on
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insane. I played him white labels, B-sides
and samples we could use on that first
album. Hours of listening to records to get
our sound just right. I also have a large
amount of records in my house in England,
which my partner is always moaning are
cluttering the place up. I'm a nightmare for
walking in from the studio and leaving
them just lying around for weeks before
putting them back on the shelves.

“I used to bunk off
school to go to London
looking for records"

What's the rarest/most unusual/most
valuable item you have?

Probably a big pile of white labels I
collected in the late 80s/early 90s when I
used to pop into Fatcat Records and help
out a bit sometimes. Most were nicked out
of [founder] Alex Knight's record tray. He
still doesn't know. Ha! Ha! To this day I
don't know who they are by — Detroit,
Chicago, dark moody techno with not
much going on. Amazing. I still play them
today or sample them. I have a large
selection of disco records that I’m very fond
of as I have good memories of going to
Vinylmania Records in New York and
spending hours talking to the lovely owner
Charlie Grappone, who would explain
exactly when these gems of tracks were
played at the Paradise Garage by Larry
Levan. Filling three record boxes was easy to
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I've stopped looking for records — I have
everything I need. I use my record
collection as a tool to make new records for
PL, to either sample, loop or just make
edits to DJ with. I'm always finding
records Гуе forgotten about, or finding
tracks I overlooked back in the day. I have
a sound in my head that I like so I've
stopped searching for new tracks. I just
make all my records fit into the PL world
that's in my head.

What's given you the biggest thrill?
Playing a 35-year-old track nobody has,
[that makes] one young kid roll up with a
smile asking what the hell it is. Just

seeing his excitement, just the same as when
I first heard it. There's something magical
about witnessing that experience in
someone else. Turning young kids onto raw
electronic drums and simple underproduced
house is always a thrill. The beauty of a
simple record only made for one purpose:
the dancefloor.

How do you track stuff down?

[ don't need to track records down; I have
everything I need. I collected records by
running around shops in London. In those
days you would be in a shop and some mate
or associate would walk in and show you
what he had just bought somewhere else.
Next thing, 15 blokes would leave sharpish
to get their copy before it sold out.
Knowing Soho very well came in handy:
shortcuts through alleyways were a must.
There's something special about hearing a

How often do you listen to the stuff in
your collection?

All the time. Most days Ill find some old
B-side or lost track that I've forgotten

about, and off I go to the studio with it, ready
to play to Quinn to do an edit or just to get
some inspiration for a PL record. It's amazing
how many of these old records still inspire us.

Is there a visual side to collecting for you?
Have you ever bought a record for the
sleeve alone, or for a picture disc?

Гуе never bought a record for its cover — what
a load of bollocks! The sound and music
come first. Everything else is smoke and
mirrors. I always got more excited by
someone handing me a white label with some
writing or scribbled note stuck to it than
when the record is later realised in all its glory
with amazing art work; to me it just doesn't
quite have the same mystique or romance
about it. Happened to me with millions of
techno records: they looked better as white
labels, not with the over-the-top artwork that
just seems to try too hard to be cool.

How will you eventually dispose of

your collection?

Hopefully, my kids will one day discover these
records and they will get the same enjoyment
out of them as their boring dad. My youngest,
Louisa, seems to be the one who is a bit
obsessed with banging dirty techno from my
collection. I have high hopes for her.

" Harder and faster the better!" she yells at me.

Who knows what the future holds?

What's your all-time favourite record,

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You could never have a favourite record
because music and records mean different
things depending on your mood — your
natural reaction is to find a record to fit it.
That's why my record collection is so
immense: I have ever-changing moods.

record for the first time. Standing at the
counter, hands go up: “ГЇЇ have one of
them." I do miss that. Just adding to "the
cart’ — seems like a whole generation has
missed out on the thrill of crate-digging.
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What's your favourite record shop:

I used to bunk off school to go to London
looking for records. First it was hip-hop
shops. Then, when house and Balearic
started, I would go to Trax in Greek Street,
Phuture Records, The Garage down King’s
Road... You would go all over London just
trying to get all che tracks you needed that
week. My all-time favourite shop is Fatcat
Records — it was my home-from-home for
many years. This shop changed everything
for so many people: it's when London started
to get its own sound. You could meet people
with labels, studio engineers, club promoters,
and DJs from all around the word in that
shop. You could stand next to Dave Stewart
from Eurythmics or Bjork discussing releases
on the Red Planet label — that always sticks
in my mind. The selection of records those
boys brought to us was outstanding and it
shaped the electronic sound of the UK.

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Making a good fist of it:
Toyin Agbetu at the All

Nations Café, Hackney,
London, 2016

TOYIN STORY

British auteur and label entrepreneur, Toyin Agbetu aka Master Tee, talks to lan Shirley
about his 80s breakthrough with Deluxe and a lifetime of work in different genres

just bought the LP Just A Little More by

Deluxe, on the Unyque label. It's great and,

| see from Discogs, worth in the region of

£20. | loved the interview you conducted

last year with Robert Charles Roper — aka
DJ Mastermix — who made amazing street soul
around the same time the Deluxe album was
released. | was wondering if you could shine some
more light on Deluxe and the Unyque label.
Derek Hines via email
Deluxe was singer Delores "Deluxe" Springer
backed by production genius Toyin Agbetu,
working under the umbrella of Master — The
Beatcreator — Tee. In a 1989 interview with Black
Echoes, Springer explained that they met while
studying business administration at Haringey
College. Agbetu was already working in music
and, discovering Springer could sing, decided they
should record. He hired equipment to supplement
his bedroom studio and got started. "Tee had it
all ready," recalled Springer. "We did 24 hours
of recording, no sleep. Non-stop." The haste
was because Agbetu could only afford to hire the
equipment for 24 hours. The result of this session
was the first Deluxe 12" single — Your Loving
Drives Me Crazy/My Mama And Papa (Always Told
Me)/Forever In Love (UNQ 2, 1986, £6) — which
was the second release on Agbetu's Unyque Artist
label. The success of this track led to follow-up
Deluxe single, (I've Got A) Feeling/My Мата And
Papa (Remix)/Passionately (UNQ 3 T, 1986, £4).

The album you own - Just A Little More —
was released in 1989 (UNQ LP 1) and is worth
£25 in Mint condition. There were five Deluxe
12" singles released in 1989. As a music-maker
and producer, Agbetu was releasing records not
only on Unyque but also Intrigue, Mutant and EM
whose style ranged from street soul to hardcore
EDM under a slew of aliases like Dark Knight,
Andromeda, X-Men, Shades Of Black, Nemesis
and The Witchdoctor. | was able to speak to
Agbetu about how he got started, recorded
Deluxe and had an underground dance hit based
on Paul Gascoigne's Italia 90 tears.

How did you get into music?

l'd been a computer programmer since | was
quite young - | started making music for Nintendo

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games, just having fun... theme music, background
music, stuff like that. | always loved music, listened
to it, purchased it from shops, played it at community
radio stations, and if there was ever a party or a
family gathering, it was, "Toyin, please bring your
records down." | was the guy with the cassette tapes
and everybody knew Га have the latest imports. That
cultivated the seeds that maybe | should take this
one step further.

One of your first engagements was with the
British dance/soul label, Elite, in the mid-80s.
How did that come about?

| was working in a HiFi shop in Tottenham Court
Road and banging out tracks. At that stage, a lot of
records | really liked were on Elite. | just went down
to their office in Harrow and played a tape and we
clicked. It just worked. There was no great superhero
origin story. They were good at what they were
doing, they saw the talent, and | thought Га like to
do something with them.

"BACK THEN,
BEDROOM STUDIOS
WERE UNHEARD-OF"

What was it like working with Elite?

My experience with Elite started off fantastic. | was
signed as a group member, with KEW-T, as a band
essentially. We were having fun but the group fell
through. | ended up producing tracks for Elite. |

was behind the scenes co-producing and writing

for Rosaline Joyce's debut album [Lovers Soul, Jam
Today ROSLP 1, 1987, £40] and other stuff. At that
young stage, | wasn't so fussed about the money
side of things. | was more interested in the credit. |
wanted the opportunity to make music, so that was
something | appreciated, but | didn't like the idea of
them taking credit for my work without referencing
me. It didn't sit right with me.

How did you leave Elite?

| walked out of my contract. | refused to work with
them and they started using the law and saying, "If
you do anything, we're going to sue you." At that

time, Rosaline was my partner and we were sitting
there as a couple thinking, "We're just trying to make
our way in the industry and now we have this label we
respected that we have poured our heart into, who
we've recorded an album for, threatening to sue us."
It was quite petrifying.

How did you get around that?

We decided we wouldn't use Rosaline as a main
artist — she would do the backing vocals and | would
continue writing. In those day, | wrote all the songs
and played the music, and my inspiration for that
came from Jam and Lewis. | was, and still am, a huge
fan of Jam and Lewis. People didn't recognise the
continuity of having producers with a theme, a sound
and a signature.

What was the first record you released?

The first Unyque record was a hip-hop track. We

had just walked out on our deal with Elite and were
petrified of being sued. Unyque 1 was a tune by a
rapper called lan Burton that | knew [MC IB And Тһе
Beatcreator: Word/Men From The Boys/Money/Like
This, ОМО 1, 1988, £15]. т not a hip-hop producer.
| tried. | gave it my best. It was my attempt to say
we didn't have to do it in American accents. It was a
gamble and it didn't pay off but l'm still proud of it. It
was our first release.

How did Deluxe come about?

Deluxe was the one we staked everything on. Rosaline
and | sacrificed every penny we had hiring all the gear
over a weekend, crammed it all into my bedroom and

just recorded the 12" and the album over a couple of
days. We put all our money into the pressing, crossed

our fingers and hoped it would work. We were lucky —

people loved it and Deluxe took off.

What was the first Deluxe release?

The first 12" was Your Love Drives Me Crazy and it
had two tracks on the other side: Forever In Love and
My Mama And Papa (Always Told Me). We couldn't
afford a 24-track studio so | synced a uni-sequencer
to an 8-track recorder. | had a SEC 1882 mixer. | still
have that mixer — | keep it for nostalgic purposes as
it still has so many memories for me. We just ran the
instruments live, recorded the vocals to the master
track and bounced things back and forth. | was quite

Deluxe

JUST ALITTLE MORE

COLLECTING

just a little more

The bedroom tapes (clockwise from left): the first fruits of Agbetu’s collaboration with vocalist Delores Deluxe’ Springer - the debut Deluxe album from
1989; Deluxe’s second single I’ve Got A Feeling; the title track from the album, issued as a single in 1988. All released on Unyque Records

confident that we’d get away with it as long as
| mixed it right.

Did Deluxe do live PAs in clubs to promote the
singles and the album?

Delores was the main singer with Deluxe and we
toured up and down the country in clubs. | was still
always the shy one and | had a policy of no more
than two or three interviews a year. | think | did one
for ID. They came over from America because they'd
heard about this group who'd recorded with a studio
in their bedroom. Back then, recording an album in
your bedroom was unheard-of and bedroom studios
didn't exist so it was quite a phenomenon.

How did Unyque get distribution?

By that time, people knew my work but not from a
business point of view. There was a distributor called
G&M Records based in Stratford and they were good
exporters and domestic suppliers, too. [heir main
buyer just had confidence in my work so he said,

“МІ take a couple of thousand units." For a small
label that was amazing. As the label developed over
the years and began to attract other exporters to
supplement our domestic sales, it got to the point
where we could release a record and not chart but
still sell between 5 to 10,000 units. That was always
the philosophy of the label — break even and live to
fight another day.

Is it true it was you who came up with the term
"street soul"?

| kind of termed our work street soul and it kind

of had this little buzz around it. | used to use it

in interviews. | remember when | did the Soul
Connection album, Rough & Ready [Intrigue IGESC
1, 1988, £70]. | called it street soul and pushed it
out there: this Is what we do.

How did the sound and the labels grow?
Eventually we got out of the bedroom, got an office
and І got a studio outside my house. | always kept
it "street" for want of a better term and with that

came our sound. It's important to understand what
was happening in America. UK soul at that time was
leaning very heavily towards jazz-funk, which | loved
but it was a different tempo, whereas in America
there was this transition to what Teddy Riley had
created, called New Jack Swing, and the tempos
were speeding up. It was only Jive in the UK that had
artists like Ruby Turner, for example, slower
mid-tempo stuff, which was what І was doing. But

| was a Jam and Lewis fan so the majority of my stuff
was soulful even though | had a house label, which
was also very successful.

Did you find that your work was constantly
compared to American music?

We were always being compared in the mainstream
magazines like Record Mirror with our American
counterparts and that was really unfair. We were
independent. | love the big productions, artists like
Anita Baker, | just love all that stuff, but we didn't
have those resources in the studio so we weren't
trying to recreate that sound. We were interpreting
that sound in a British way and it gave us an edge.
You heard it in tracks by people like Omar or Rick
Clarke. In the UK we have this heavy influence of
reggae and lovers rock and that influence means
we tend to slow down our music and add heavier
basslines. That’s quite predominant in street soul,
that swing, that kind of two-step vibe that goes
with it. In America, they were speeding things up
and there was overproduction, but street soul was
deliberately trying not to do that. Тһе mainstream
UK media would always make these disparaging
comparisons, just like they did with hip-hop.

Tell me about the Intrigue label?

Intrigue was the main house label. | still love house, |
still love EDM. One of the things that was problematic
back in the day was that your fan-base was quite
tribal. You are soul, reggae or house as an artist and
never the twain shall meet. | grew up on a mix of
music so | moved from Brothers Johnson to Derrick
May to Fela Kuti to Peter Tosh. But that didn't work

on a business level. Distributors wanted a brand.
A label needed an identity. So Intrigue came about
to give me a bit of space to experiment, to make
dance music that wasn't street soul.

You recorded on Intrigue under a number of
names, didn't you?

| had a million and one pseudonyms on that label.
Shades Of Black was one of my favourite projects
and the Andromeda tracks were very noisy house
tracks. | had an amazing time in the studio knocking
them out. It was really strange — at one stage, even
though Unyque was the parent label, the revenue
from Intrigue paid all our bills. EDM, Chicago and
Garage kind of took over the world. There was Inner
City and Ten City and, when music like that went
mainstream, Intrigue became our main revenue.

Why were some Deluxe singles released on
different labels?

The first album came out through us and then we
did some deals. We went through a company called
Danceyard and Spartan, who were distributing and
making inroads into the dance market. That was
kind of ideal at the time — a big mistake now In
hindsight — but | thought, “They have the money,
they have the marketing, | can just be in the studio
knocking out tunes and they can do all the carrying
of records in the back of their car, driving it up to
distributors and getting the invoices." The problem
was they went bust with all our money and that
caused a crisis. So, we had this huge success,
these huge revenues, and we just took a massive
financial hit. | had to reevaluate how we did things.
Then the dance stuff really became our bread and
butter and | remember | licensed some other stuff of
Deluxe but things changed after that and it wasn't
the same project.

You also finally began to release singles by
Rosaline Joyce, didn't you?

Elite eventually went bust and reinvented
themselves as Jam loday and so | took advantage.

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| thought it would've been such a nightmare for
them to try to tie us to a contract to a company
that was defunct — we were just going to

risk it and fight in court if we had to. So, we
started doing that as well and it was fun. It was
tentative at first. We kind of edged out slowly
and never got to release an album because
unfortunately she passed away. We never got to
do all the work we had planned.

What are some of the neglected gems you
released on your labels?

That's a hard one. | have released over a
couple of hundred tracks. | have got favourites.
some are instrumentals, some are house, and
some are soulful. | did a track on Rick Clarke's
album called Time Keeps Moving On [Raven
RAVLP 1, 1988, £30]. I didn't write it but | did
the mix and it's a modern-day classic. Make
You Mine and Jazz Thang are also two of my
favourites. Make You Mine was Shades Of
Black and it was like а soul groove. Jazz Thang
was under 2 Times. | was really lucky to have
the vocals of Deluxe and Rick Clarke. | can't rap
to save my life so | was narrating on the mike.
It was a fun time.

Were there tracks and artists that didn't
sell as well as you'd hoped?

| had a label called EP records. | didn't release
much on that label but some of what | did |
really love. | had four different labels at the
time — EB Unyque, Intrigue and Mutant. Mutant
is the only one | don't talk about.

Why is that?

It was purely money-making. Hardcore rave
music had come into the scene and so |
thought, "Let me mess around and create an
imprint that can work." It was the only label
where | wasn't being totally creatively honest. |

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Souled out (clockwise from top left): 1987 debut by Rosaline Joyce; Rick Clarke’s 1988 album;
Agbetu and Earl Myers as Soul Connection in 1988; 1989 Deluxe single; Agbetu’s 90s project, Shades Of Black; Soul Connection compilation (2020)

was exploiting a situation to bring in a bit of money
to pay bills. The other labels were a different story.
| put my heart into them.

As you wrote and produced most of the tracks
on the labels, how did you decide what artist
name to release them under?

Once the name was set for a track, that would set
the genre and the theme, but sometimes | would
go into the studio and have no idea what was going
to come out of it. | would be having fun апа Га
have these identities and work out later which it
would come under.

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STUDIO TO MAKE A
SUCCESSFUL RECORD"

Let's talk about Andromeda. What was the
story behind that?

There was a World Cup [1990]. Gazza had cried
during a football match and it was all over the
news. | remember going into the studio and playing
dah-dah da-dah-da on the keyboards and shouting
“Gazza!” | had so much fun. Everyone In the crew
looked at me, saying, "That's alright, Toy!" | said,
“It’s nonsense!” They said, "It's alright." So, we
released it [Andromeda - Gazza, Intrigue IGE 20 T,
1991] and the tune blew up. Kiss FM were down
the road from our offices and Steve Jackson began
playing it. We had a hit record across the country,
an underground hit — not mainstream. All these
positive DJ reaction sheets were coming back and
it was really weird. One of them said, "This is the
best thing you've ever done." | was like, “| know
you re trying to give me a compliment but this is
bloody awful!"

But there were plenty more Andromeda
releases, weren't there?

Andromeda was kind of experimental. There was
this hardcore beep track by LFO. | just loved it. |
thought | had to do something like that. Anything
like that went out as Andromeda. The mental stuff!

Was it hard producing so much music and
keeping up with a busy release schedule?

That was one area | struggled with. | never went

to the studio to make a successful record. | didn't
want to manufacture records. As the label got more
successful, we were releasing two to four records
every month. That was a lot and it changed the way
| made music. It was a bit depressing at one stage.
You'd go into the studio and know that everything
you did was going to come out. It's like taking a
penalty in football — you know you've got to deliver.
That is not how the label started. In the early days,
the label was purely for fun experimentation, doing
what we liked and paying homage to those we loved
in America and the diaspora. But in the latter days, |
had to go into the studio and knock out a couple of
blinding tunes in two days because we already had
the catalogue number and the designer was working
on the sleeve. l'd have no clue what | was going to
come up with. It changed the way we made music.

How do you feel about some of your tracks
being collectible classics today?

| feel quite chuffed about the idea that some of the
work | did 30 years ago is back in vogue. | made
mistakes оп some of those old tracks and | love the
idea that people can hear my imperfections but still
appreciate the spirit of what | was doing.

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GEMINI

Gemini

(Polydor POLD 5189, LP, UK, 1985) £12
Geminism

(Polar POLS 418, LP, Sweden, 1987) £10

The breaking of ABBA’s four-decade silence with their ninth aloum, Voyage,
has reignited whimsical speculation about what might have been had the
foursome kept going in 1982. At the time of the group’s demise, ABBA’s
work was at its most dark, polished and understated. Their masterpiece, The
Visitors (1981), was still a fairly new LP and, one year on, had been followed
by The Day Before You Came, their bleakest, most sophisticated single,
recorded after sessions for a putative ninth aloum had been abandoned, and
used as fan-bait on double-LP, The Singles: The First Ten Years. Sadness and
alienation had become recurring themes of their music. When they tried
lighter, more genial styles (1982's catchy but slightly fatigued Under Attack
and its throwaway B-side You Owe Me One), there was something
unconvincing about the results, as if their hearts no longer lay in that zone.

But the answer to the question of what ABBA might have done next has
always been right in front of us because, while Agnetha Faltskog and Frida
Lyngstad went solo, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson simply picked up
where they'd left off, by writing and producing two albums using a pair of
accomplished Agnetha and Frida surrogates. The albums are easy to acquire
and, for any serious ABBA-ficionado, they're required listening.

In 1985, Karin Glenmark and her younger brother Anders, from the town
of Tomelilla in Sweden's Skáne County, were established musicians in their
early thirties. They'd started recording in 1972 as part of the Glenmarks, a
family group formed with an aunt and uncle. The Glenmarks issued four
albums in the 705, before Anders moved on to a solo career. In the close-knit
world of Swedish popular music, the family formed tangential connections to
ABBA; Anders sang backing vocals on Faltskog’s 19/5 album Elva Kvinnor |
Ett Hus and the 19/6 CBS LP by ABBA producer Michael B. Tretow, Let's
Boogie. He played guitar on Lyngstad's 1975 Polar album, Ensam.

As ABBA went dormant, the Glenmark siblings were the obvious substitutes
for Faltskog and Lyngstad: both had plaintive voices with broad ranges,
perfectly suited to the love-gone-wrong, middle-age ballads at which the ABBA
writers excelled. They were also notably versatile, leaping from icy to
impassioned depending, on the demands of the song. After the siblings
provided backing vocals for the official album of Chess, Ulvaeus and
Andersson's stage musical collaboration with Tim Rice, Ulvaeus encouraged
them to name themselves Gemini. They signed to Polar as a duo (with
overseas distribution via other labels) and began recording at the studio of the
same name in Stockholm.

In 1985 came the first results of the Gemini/ABBA union: a self-titled
English-language album. Gemini's studio band featured ABBA mainstays
Rutger Gunnarsson (bass) and Lasse Wellander (guitar) with Benny
Andersson on keyboards/synths. Per Lindvall, who'd appeared on Super
Trouper, played drums and percussion and ABBA's long-standing engineer,
Michael B Tretow, was on board, too. A considerable effort was made to
launch Gemini at a British audience the following year. Their first single, Just
Like That, a sublimely fretful torch song in рор drag, was performed on BBC1's
Wogan on 12 March 1986, with Andersson on keyboards. "You probably won't
have seen our next group before now," said Terry Wogan, "but you're bound to
recognise one of the faces: Benny Andersson, of Sweden's greatest ever pop
group, ABBA. It's a Bjorn and Benny composition and a brother-and-sister
singing team. Welcome, Gemini!"

Just Like That had actually reached the demo stage in an ABBA Incarnation,
but had since been significantly rewritten and improved. A highly intriguing
song in the Ulvaeus/Andersson catalogue, it can, if you're feeling fanciful, be
listened to as a kind of One Of Us follow-up, detailing the hapless female
protagonist's unsatisfactory involvement with a new man a few months later.

But there were even better tracks on the LP, which was split roughly 60/40
between Ulvaeus/Andersson songs and those written by Anders Glenmark (with
lyrics by Ingela Forsman). Glenmark's writing was competent but couldn't help
but pall when placed beside the work of the master-craftsmen of ABBA, who
gave the album some of the best music they'd ever written, including the
humanitarian cri de coeur, Have Mercy, and the devastating Another You,
Another Me. The latter would be re-recorded in an inferior version decades
later by H & Claire from kiddy-pop sensations, Steps. Also included was
Slowly, another Bjorn-Benny death-of-love classic, which had been sung by
Frida for her third Polar album, Shine, one year earlier. The pair's ability to

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Love and Sou

inflate romantic sorrow into something glorious, grand and epic, via ever
more penetrating lyrics, heavy-hearted chord progressions and crestfallen
melodies, was as evident as ever.

Gemini were reasonably successful in Sweden but in Britain, where by
1986 anything, associated with ABBA was instantly passé, they failed to get
much traction, even after their high-profile outing on mass-market family TV.
Just Like That peaked at No /9. Perhaps that's why the second (and final)
Gemini album, Geminism (1987), was only issued in Europe and the USSR.
Again, in terms of songwriting, it's half-ABBA/half-Glenmark. It's worth
collecting, even if nothing on it approaches the quality of Have Mercy, Slowly
or Another You, Another Me. The lead single, Mio My Mio (a Swedish No 3
hit), comes close.

The intricate, complex production aesthetic of Gemini indicates that, had
ABBA prevailed through the 80s and beyond, they'd have built on the
synthesised sound of The Visitors and navigated the new decade by staying
abreast of all the changes in recording technology and then bending them
to their creative will. Today, some of Gemini's work is on streaming platforms
and there's a promo video or two on YouTube, but the original albums
— uneven, yes, but also exceptional — are the only way to hear all the
Bjorn-and-Benny tracks.

Charles Donovan

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The First Ten Years

SEOUL SISTER

EUN-HA LEE

Spring Rain/A Heart That Gives Love
(SRB Records SR 0151, South Korea, LP, 1979) £80

Hip-hop and soul are part of the fabric of contemporary Korean music,
through their influence on K-pop and the rich homegrown scenes. But
groove-based American styles have long been popular on the dancefloors of
Seoul. Eun-Ha Lee's 1979 album Spring Rain/A Heart That Gives Love is
ample evidence of the funk and disco movements that flourished even in the
dark ages of dictatorship.

Rapid-fire industrialisation in the 60s had created the conditions for a
remarkable economic turnaround in South Korea. But with modernisation
came the revolutionary stirrings of a western-influenced, youth-led
counterculture. Park Chung-hee’s military government began issuing ever
more draconian decrees to its young citizens. After banning long hair and
miniskirts in the early 705, the dictator then turned his ire on musicians.

Thanks to artists like Shin Joong Hyeon (whose music has recently been
anthologised by Light In The Attic), the country had been blessed with fecund
psychedelic rock and Western folk movements. In 1974,
aiming to curtail their influence, Park issued Presidential
Emergency Decree Number 9 — a slew of repressive
measures. Over 200 South Korean and foreign songs
were banned for “negative influences on national security”
and “pessimistic content”. Denounced as decadent, many
musicians were singled out for arrest and imprisonment.
By 1975, the once-vibrant music scene had been
replaced by an anodyne state-sanctioned pop style known
as adult gayo.

Many skilled musicians who'd escaped the purge were
soon itching to get their teeth into something with a little
more bite. The first tentative steps back towards a popular
‘youth-led’ music emerged at the many US army bases
that still proliferated after the Korean War. It was in these
establishments that soul and funk first began to establish
themselves as popular styles before spreading to hotel
nightclubs and, eventually, television where musicians
were commissioned to provide music to accompany

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disco styles that had begun to break through. She boasted a rich, husky
voice, fine dancing skills, and an imaginative eye for choreography. It was
during a televised performance of her 1978 hit single, Night Train, that she
earned her Disco Queen nickname with a dance routine that proved a sensation
for its finger-pointing moves.

Released in 19/9, her fourth album, Spring Rain/A Heart That Gives Love,
captures Lee in fine form. It opens with Spring Rain, a horn-powered ballad that
would become one of her signature songs. It's Confusing is the first of the funk
tracks, with fierce basslines, funky guitar riffs, and punchy trumpets underpinning
a powerful vocal tum. Synth-drenched slow numbers come next, in the form of |
Can't Forget You, Without Words, and A Woman In A Strange Place, while
there's a couple of idiosyncratic attempts to marry the still-popular gayo style
with funk and R&B in the shape of Only To You and See You Next Time. The
album highlight is undoubtedly A Heart That Gives Love. Over rugged basslines,
clipped guitars, sweeping strings, languid trad-jazz clarinets and killer electric
piano, Lee delivers a stellar vocal performance that's as bold as it is sultry.

The funk and disco scenes would burn brightly for a number of years (as
evidenced on Beat Ball Music's 2020 compilation, Funky Coup: Korean Soul,
Funk & Rare Groove Nuggets). Today, Eun-Ha Lee enjoys legendary status as a
pioneer of modern Korean pop.

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broadcasts. Concurrently, a series of competitions was
held, which gave young singers the chance to make a
name for themselves singing original songs. Many of
these artists would align themselves with the new styles
and lead a renaissance of Korean popular music over the
coming years, not least Eun-Ha Lee, known locally as the

‘Queen of Disco’.

Born in Seoul in 1961, she’d grown up in a musical
family (ner father was a renowned accordion player) and
begun performing at an early age, making her competitive

broadcast debut in 1975 for the TBC (Tongyang

Broadcasting Company) Song Festival. Within two years
she'd been selected as one of the competition's 10 best
singers — a much-coveted national award she would hold
on to for nearly a decade - and had clinched a record
deal. Lee’s talents were a perfect match for the funk and

Vintage Venue

A regular look at
unsung haunts near you

No 37: The Futurist Theatre, Scarborough

Readers who've enjoyed family holidays by the
British seaside over the last 50 years may well
have seen a show in an archetypical end-of-the-
pier theatre. Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre
wasn't end-of-pier, but rather on the main drag
along the front. And for 90 years it served up a
wide variety of family entertainment.

Built in 1921 as a cinema, this 2000+
seater building went through an extension in
195/ (the first of several), increasing the
opportunity for live shows. The list of artists who
appeared there over the ensuing decades reads
like a Who's Who of British showbiz: Ken Dodd,
Shirley Bassey, Morecombe and Wise, The
Chuckle Brothers, Cannon and Ball, Michael
Barrymore and Val Doonican were just a few of
the acts who trod its boards.

The expiry of the operator's lease, combined
with changing fashions in seaside entertainment
and the poor condition of the building, led to its
closure in 2014 and demolition four years later.
David Pearson

It often presented kids' shows and
adaptations of TV hits like /t Ain't Half Hot Mum.
And lots of tribute shows: One Night Of Queen,
The Illegal Eagles, The Billy Fury Years, Rumours
Of Fleetwood Mac and more.

But the theatre was also host to many
genuine stars from popular music. The
impressively diverse list included Gary Barlow,
Elkie Brooks, Belle & Sebastian, Big Country,
The Bachelors, Stylistics, Shadows, Rick
Wakeman and David Essex.

And The Beatles, twice: 11 December 1963
and 9 August 1964, two shows a night. Fans
queued for over 30 hours for the 1963 shows,
and the press reported that the continuous
screaming pretty much drowned out the music.
some 20 girls passed out amid the cacophony.
When the second show ended, 600 fans
attempted to storm the stage, held back by a
police cordon. The Futurist was the smallest
venue on the band's tour, but they still had to
be smuggled through the back door while police
staged a diversion at the front.

If you know of an unsung music venue, send
300-400 words on the subject, with a venue
pic or scanned memorabilia, to
paul.lester@metropolis.co.uk

(Left) The Futurist near the ends of its life,
2013; (Right) Ticket stub for the first of two
Beatles appearances on 11 December 1963

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Diggin’ For

LABEL OF LOVE

NEW HEAVY SOUNDS

Label boss Се:

Interview: Charles Donovan

Where are you based, what do
you do?

GM: We're based in London. We
release limited edition vinyl, CD and
digital, heavy music... metal, punk,
hardcore, with big riffs and attitude.
Also, doom and stoner records.

Why the name?

GM: Someone said, "Well, if we're
talking memorable names, what
about the NHS?" We just needed
something to go with the initialism.
Hence, New Heavy Sounds.

PC: It tells you what we do, in an
unpretentious and humorous way.

When did you launch it and how
have things changed since?

GM: In 2011, initially to release
music by our own band, XM3a. Our
first release was a one-sided 12". As
we tapped into the heavy scene,
which was much more exciting than
the indie scene, it made us want to
sign other bands.

PC: The doom/stoner/desert scene
has done nothing but grow in the
last 10 years.

What were your influences?
GM: Creation was an obvious
influence initially. Also Rise Above
and Southern Lord — we liked their

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vibe and what they
were doing.

PC: Many of the
bands we were
enjoying at the time
were on Brew
Records, the label
of our friend and
publicity guru,
Simon Glacken.

Who are your
competitors?

GM: There seem to
be more metal labels
now than when we
started. | wouldn't call
them competitors. |
think we're all trying to keep the
scene alive. We're fans of APF,
Magnetic Eye, and Rocket.

PC: Rocket Recordings is a label to
aspire to — they've taken left-field
bands like Goat and Pigs x7 and
brought them overground.

Any advice for someone who
wants to start their own label?
GM: Ask yourself why you want to do
it. If it's to make loads of money,
forget it, it's not going to happen
unless you get very, very lucky.
You've got to do it for the love of it.
PC: Don't release too much. Be
choosy, really choosy. Treat your
bands well.

What’s been your highest high?
GM: The first band we signed was
Black Moth. We managed to get Jim
Sclavunos of The Bad Seeds to
produce their first aloum, The Killing
Jar. It was amazing to hear their first
single being played on BBC 6 Music.
PC: It was nice to record a
collaboration with punk legend Lydia
Lunch (Transmaniacon).

... Апа your lowest low?

GM: Not getting airplay on
mainstream radio stations for
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
thus far. Their music is a mix of

shoegaze and doom, very accessible.

We thought it had appeal to folks

Heavy scene (left to right):
Paul Cox and Ged Murphy,
Reservoir Studios, London,
July 2020

beyond the heavy sphere, but so far,
we haven't cracked it.

PC: How predictably poor working
with a major label was. | thought the
industry might have changed. It
has... for the worse. Excitement at
finding a licensing deal with a Sony
label for Black Moth's Think turned
into intense disappointment. | wish
that album had Just been on New
Heavy Sounds.

What album, from any period, do
you wish you could have released
- and why?

GM: Mine would be Roxy Music's
first album. They looked and
sounded like nothing else.

PC: Either of the first two Stooges
or either of the first two by My
Bloody Valentine.

Who would be your ideal signing?
GM: A band that could riff like
Sabbath and be as heavy as

Sleep or Electric Wizard, with the
experimentation of Pink Floyd and
the songwriting of PJ Harvey.

Julie Driscoll on vocals, plus the
otherness of Devo.

How do you find new acts?

GED: Our first port of call is
submissions. We'll try and see bands
live first, but if the submission is
strong enough, we'll go for it. Also,
recommendations and Bandcamp.

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PC: We follow interesting tip-offs.
oubmissions is a double-edged issue
— if you release a cool doom record,
all you'll get sent are doom
submissions. Ged and | are more
ambitious than that.

Where would a newcomer start
with your label?

GM: For heavy doom, check out
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard,
Embr and Blacklab. For stoner, it's
Black Moth or Sky Valley Mistress. For
riffs, Vodun and Mountain Caller and
for gothic vibes, Cold In Berlin and
Grave Lines.

PC: We're into accessible sounds as
well. The combination is extremely
interesting and subversive — like
Jessica’s vocal for Mammoth Weed
drawing you in and then Dave's giant
riffs blowing your head off.

And what can long-time fans look
forward to?

GM: There’s a new Mammoth Weed
Wizard Bastard album ready to go. It
has been delayed because Dave
(guitar) is still in hospital with Covid.
There’s a new Mountain Caller EP, a
new Grave Lines album, our special
10th Anniversary series of CD EPs and
a new Blacklab album in the offing.

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09/15 | NHSLP 018 MAMMOTH WEED WIZARD BASTARD Noeth Ac Anoeth (LP, Itd edition of 300, frosted white
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SOUND AND VISION

RC revisits a classic music TV or film moment

The Tubes
The Fishin’ Musician/SCTV
(NBC — broadcast 24 July 1981)

The SCTV (Second City Television) series, first broadcast in autumn 1976, was
created by two longtime directors of Chicago’s Second City improvisational
theatre company and the cast of Toronto’s Second City show. Each hour-long
episode was structured as “a programming day for a small television station”,
parodying the types of programmes and advertisements that typically ran on
local channels. SCTV initially aired for three seasons in Canada, gaining a
fanatically devoted following. Its popular recurring characters included seedy
station owner Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty), crass comedian Bobby Bittman
(Eugene Levy), tragically over-the-top singer Lola Heatherton (Catherine
O'Hara), апа uber-Canadian “hosers” Bob and Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas
and Rick Moranis).

In 1981, SCTV was picked up by the American network, NBC. The network,
however, wanted the episodes expanded to 90 minutes, and for each to
include musical guests. The show's cast and writers weren't averse to the idea
of guests, because a musical performance meant five more minutes of airtime
that they didn't have to script — but they also didn't want SCTV to become a
generic variety show. According to Thomas’ book SCTV: Behind The Scenes
(McClelland & Stewart, 1996), the writers decided that the musical guests
would be incorporated into the show, and that those guests would be, in
Thomas’ words, "musicians that we wanted to meet”. The Tubes were invited
to be part of a new SCTV segment: The Fishin' Musician.

The Tubes were riding high on the success of their alboum The Completion
Backwards Principle (Capitol, 1981), their sarcastic response to the business-
oriented Ronald Reagan presidency and the corporate music industry. Тһе
album had generated two US hit singles in Don't Want To Wait Any More and
Talk To Ya Later. Having emerged from San Francisco's music and comedy
scenes, and being renowned for the theatricality of their live shows, The Tubes
were a great fit for SCTV.

The Fishin' Musician was a parody of the Canadian TV show The Red Fisher
Show, which ran from 1968 to 1989, in which the host would go fishing with a

celebrity and then, back at "Scuttlebut Lodge", narrate footage of their outdoor

adventures. SCTV's Fishin' Musician required The Tubes to appear in both
indoor and outdoor scenes, and to travel to Edmonton where SCTV was filmed.
On the day that the outdoor scenes were shot at Battle Lake, southwest of
Edmonton, two limos showed up at the band's hotel at six o'clock in the
morning, along with a truck for the camera crew. Lead singer Fee Waybill later
told the TV Guidance Counselor podcast that he hopped into the same limo as
John Candy, who played Fishin' Musician host Gil Fisher, and discovered that
Candy had brought along "a bag of weed and a case of beer". They took full
advantage of both during the hour-long drive to the filming site, and “by the
time we got there we were shit-faced, although [Candy] was right there — it
didn't even faze him".

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Butt Lodge’. Waybill tells Gil, "I think | speak for all the boys when | say this trip
for large-mouth bass was the highlight of our sporting careers," and the
footage of the trip begins. The outdoor scenes, accompanied by instrumental
music, are grainy and slightly out of focus, like Super 8mm holiday films of old.
On the lake shore Gil welcomes The Tubes, in matching grey suits, carrying
briefcases and with folded newspapers tucked under their arms. Everyone
climbs into aluminium fishing boats with outboard engines, and they head off
on the lake with a bearded long-haired guide that Gil dubs "Willie Nelson".

Willie promptly steers the boats into the reeds, and after some shots of Gil
and The Tubes looking confused while stuck in the shallows, the boats are
freed and everyone's out on the lake again, casting their lines. Waybill later
revealed that while filming the segment, none of the Tubes actually caught a
fish (“we got boots and all sorts of stuff instead”). After another trip into the
reeds with Willie, the band and Gil have a fish fry on the shore — though Gil
reveals that, "| can't eat fish, | just can't stand the taste of it." The outdoor
segment ends with everyone posing proudly by the lake with their catch.

Back in the lodge, Gil asks the band, "You have a song to sing, don't you?"
Waybill says, "Yes, and it's about fish!" and The Tubes launch into Sushi Girl,
the second cut on their new, David Foster-produced album. During the song's
instrumental break, Waybill grabs a fish sitting on top of Vince Welnick's
keyboards, chops its head off and slices it open, and stuffs it full of rice. He
then sings the final chorus while munching on the rice and waving the fish
around. Gil yells, Whoo!!" and hoists his cigarette lighter in the air in
appreciation. He thanks his guests by giving them copies of his book Pictures
Of Every Fish | Ever Caught, and Waybill awards Gil a plaque of a fish mounted
on a spray-painted LP: the coveted "brass bass". The segment ends with
everyone clacking fishing rods together and dancing to the theme music.

The best place to see SCTV segments is on YouTube - currently, it's not
available on any streaming service. Other musical appearances on SCTV worth
looking up are Dave Edmunds, Jimmy Buffett, Dr. John, the Plasmatics, Carl
Perkins, Al Jarreau, and Ben Vereen: truly, something for everyone.

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nce I asked Richard Н. Kirk what
Cabaret Voltaire would do if
electricity didn't exist. "It's
unthinkable!” he laughed. “We АКЕ
children of the age of technology.
They can't take it away from us".

Kirk, who died on 21 September, aged 65,
leaves a legacy, buzzing like a mysterious cable in
a corner, which can’t now be erased from music's
past and future. Of course, it's his work with the
Cabs which dominates the discourse, but even in
the two and a half decades while that name lay
fallow he released a range of equally forward-
looking sounds, under a raft of aliases. British
electronica had an assortment of parents, but
Kirk and colleagues were eminent among them.

On 20205 Shadow Of Fear, the first album
made under the Cabaret Voltaire name in 26
years, a spoken-word sample running through
the track The Power (Of Their Knowledge)
announces, “You start with nothing and you end
up with nothing.” Kirk may never have landed
paydirt the way many of his contemporaries and
disciples did, but the shockwaves and chilly
ripples which Cabaret Voltaire sent through
British music were, and remain, of incalculable
influence. “I like ambiguous things rather than
the black and white,” Kirk told me in Sheffield
in 1984. "Wed rather be provocative. It's just a
matter of using a bit more imagination."

The career arc, such as it was, was never the
point. Cabaret Voltaire were the John The
Baptists of techno, though even that is to
simplify the horizons they hounded from
within their Western Works studio. Any of the
Yorkshire electronica greats will tell you they
were the spark, the daddies. “Cabaret Voltaire
were very generous people in terms of their
time and encouragement for other people
around them," Heaven 17 and Human League
founder Martyn Ware has said. “They were the
godfathers of that scene.” Like Ware, Kirk cited
a viewing of the film A Clockwork Orange as an
epiphany. “It made me forever associate
classical music with people getting their heads
kicked in,” he mused, with customary dry
Northern drollness which the uninitiated could
misread as grumpiness.

He d also assimilated the krautrock bands
апа the clunky, can-do sci-fi of 60s/70s British
ГУ (which, too, was about imagination
transcending budget or technical skill). A fan of
Dr. Who and Quatermass, he noticed that “all
these strange things seemed to happen in old
gasworks or industrial environments — there
was an other-worldliness to it. In Sheffield, all
night you'd hear distant
booming noises from the edge
of heavy industry." His mind
made the links, the associations,
the correspondences,
channelling them into sound.

Named after the pivotal
Zurich Dada hotbed of 1916,
the group, or idea, formed in
Sheffield as early as 1973,
alhough to most witnesses they
burst through the doors several
years later when confounding
and irritating Joy Division

audiences. Kirk, proudly working-class, had
founded the Cabs with Chris Watson, a tape-
loop pioneer who was to stick around until
1981 (and is now a leading figure in field
recordings and wildlife programs). The catalytic
Stephen Mallinder layered voice and bass over
the collages and sound structures. Pre-empting
punk's DIY ethic, they'd play from the tops of
vans, or in public toilets. Punk, in fact, made
things easier for these confrontational
necromancers of noise. It made a kind of sense.
They made a kind of sense. They came as close
to "fitting іп” as they ever would. Their studio
was set up on Portobello Street in Sheffield, and
would produce early recordings by The Human
League, New Order and Clock DVA.

Factory offered to sign them, but Cabaret
Voltaire went with Rough Trade. Nag, Nag,
Nag saw the NME's Andy Gill writing, in June
78, that they would "turn out to be one of the
most important new bands to achieve wider
recognition this year. Wait and see". We
waited, but while we saw importance, we never
really saw that wider recognition. When I
asked Kirk how Nag, Nag, Nag (and its
processed, sinister guitars and dalek-like voices,
which bore only a passing resemblance to what
we d conventionally thought of as the sound of
guitars and voices) sat with him, a few years
later, he said, "It still sounds really powerful.
But it's a pain in the neck when people ask for
it at gigs. We want to keep a Іше ahead of the
times." He added, “Funnily enough, I thought

OBITS

a hint from friends New Order and stirred in the
"dance element" on albums like The Crackdown
(1983) and the mesmerising Micro-Phonies
(1984). “Things cross-fertilise,” Kirk told me
then. “From people like us and [Can’s] Holger
Czukay to tackier groups. It’s flattering, really.
It’s always, since we started, been based around
pounding rhythm and repetition.” (RC readers
should be made aware at this point that the one
time this writer went to a Sheffield pub with
Kirk and Mallinder, their jukebox choices were
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ Tracks Of
Му Tears, Malcolm McLaren’s Madam
Butterfly, Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman and
Miami Sound Machine 5 Dr. Beat. Being a
musical visionary doesn t preclude having fun.)

They may not have made that commercial
breakthrough, but they were capable of
knowing yet committed pop-adjacent
constructions like Just Fascination, the
seductive Sensoria and James Brown, which
erazed the lower regions of the singles charts.
Sensoria was even remixed by Robin "Pop
Muzik” Scott of M.

This strain of subconscious funk should
have translated them to the wider listenership
their friends and allies were embracing. Adrian
Sherwood produced 1987's Code, with Bill
Nelson on guitar. Groovy, Laidback And Nasty
(1990) saw them working with Marshall
Jefferson, burning down house. EMI couldn't
back any more debt, though: the Cabs kept
going until Mallinder moved to Australia.

KIRK HAD SO MUCH
CREA TIVITY LEFT TO GIVE

our early singles were very commercial. It's no
challenge to keep on turning out records that
are obscure for the sake of it. I mean, we could
stand on our heads and make those."

Discussing '81's Red Mecca album (the
thinking person's Ghost Town) on the BBC,
he spoke of its atmosphere of "insurrection on
the streets... kicking back against the system.
We weren't paranoid — this stuff was slowly
happening. The rise of surveillance culture, the
fundamentalist christians, the revolution in
Iran — the general feeling that things were
moving to the right."

The 80s saw Cabaret Voltaire moving

tentatively yet confidently towards the centre,
via Some Bizzare, Virgin, then EMI. They took

M I CRO- P HON IE 5

Kirk took the opportunity to pursue his
barrage of recordings released under those alter
egos: Sweet Exorcist, Sandoz, Al Jabr, Dark
Magus, Chemical Agent and more. He worked
with Warp, ultimately reviving the Cabaret
Voltaire name in 2014 at the Berlin Atonal,
performing all-new material solo. Shadow Of
Fear, the “comeback”, was a dark triumph. It
felt, 20 years into the 21st century, as if the
world had caught up with Kirk’s attention
span: the fast cuts, loops, clashing stimuli. The
Sheffield sound, which had motivated others,
was present and potent, but updated with fresh
precision and attack. Fusing kosmische, dub,
and surrealist voice interjections, it was/is a
soundtrack to the fragmented yet relentless
vortex of today. Cabaret
Voltaire saw, or heard, it
coming, before most. Kirk had
so much creativity left to give.

“Оп my passport," Kirk
once told me, "it says audio-
visual technician.’ It doesn’t say
musician. In some ways that's
quite accurate." He concluded,
“There shouldn't be any rules in
the game." Certainly, he and
Cabaret Voltaire rewrote those
conventions that had stood, and
rewired the conversation. @

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Michael Chapman: one
Hull of a player

Michael Hu lied

U. The
guiterist/singet- желкеде was
a key, if lesser-lauded, figure within
the late 605/еагіу 705 British music
scene. Born Іп Leeds, he began his
career as part of the English folk
movement, with stints in the clubs of
Cornwall and London, leading to
a deal with Harvest, and 1969’s
debut, Rainmaker. Three more
efforts for the label — including his
1970 masterwork, Fully Qualified
Survivor — found him shifting through
ragtime, electric boogie and folk.
A switch to Decca saw him pursue
a more rock-oriented sound, as his
brilliantly inventive guitar-playing
went electric. Continuing to play
and record, even as his music fell
out of fashion in the 80s and 90s,
he gained new fans after being
championed by the likes of Sonic
Youth’s Thurston Moore. A 2012
tribute, Oh Michael, Look What
You've Done: Friends Play Michael
Chapman, featured covers by Moore,
Lucinda Williams, Hiss Golden
Messenger, and others. Chapman
issued 40-plus albums, including
201 /'s late-career highlight, 50.

Ron Bushy d Aug

бе /9. Тһе US dieu is best:
known as a member of Iron Butterfly,
and the only one to perform on all six
studio albums, from 1968's Heavy to
1975's Sun And Steel. The group's
biggest hit, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
(1968), featured a legendary drum
solo by Bushy.

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Alfred Pee Wee’ Ellis С

г, age 8C The US

ынана: Is renowned
as one of the founders of funk. He
began in New York clubs, and was
taught by Sonny Rollins. In 1965,
he joined James Brown's band and
helped create the No 1 soul hit, Cold
Sweat, and, in 1968, Say It Loud
(l'm Black And I'm Proud). Tired of
Brown's rules, he joined the Kudu
label, working with Esther Phillips and
saxman Hank Crawford. He had
a long association with Van Morrison,
appearing on Morrison's 19/9 Into
Ihe Music and on over a dozen more
albums. Tony Burke

Sarah Dash lied 20
: r е ‘The US

singer v was a co-founder of R&B

group Labelle. She began as part

of The Bluebelles, whose debut,

| Sold My Heart To The Junkman, hit

the US Top 20. After Cindy Birdsong

left to join The Supremes, in 1967,
the trio of Dash, Patti Labelle and
Nona Hendryx renamed themselves
Labelle. They scored success with
1974's single, Lady Marmalade,

a raunchy song about a New Orleans
sex worker that topped the US chart
and received UK chart-topping covers
by All Saints (1998) and Christina
Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink (2001).
Dash recorded four albums with
Labelle, issued four solo sets, and
worked as a session singer for Nile
Rodgers and The O'Jays. She joined
Keith Richards’ The X-pensive Winos
and sang on The Rolling Stones’
Steel Wheels.

Juiz Sale di 20 af

i. The singer/gu itarist
was co-founder of post-punks Delta
5. Formed alongside Bethan Peters
and Ros Allen in Leeds, they stood
out for their feminist politics and two
bassists. Adding Alan Riggs and Kelvin
Knight, they issued Mind Your Own
Business in 1979, its cult reputation
resulting in its use in a 2021 Apple
ad. Several singles followed, though
they disbanded after 1981's debut
album, See The Whirl.

John Rossall ‹

Ig . [he Болтона (above right
began his career as musical director
of The Boston Showband. Tasked by
producer Mike Leander with providing
a band for Gary Glitter, they changed
their name to The Glitter Men, playing
on a number of his hits. Becoming
The Glitter Band, they distanced

Fully Qualified Survivor

(Harvest SHVL 764, UK, LP, 1970)

themselves from the since-disgraced
singer and had seven UK Top 20
hits between March 1974 and April
1976, plus three hit albums.

Carl Bean c

j ‚ Based ІП Los миин
the US gospel singer formed Сап
Bean & Universal Love and signed
to Motown. He cut | Was Born This
Way, іп 1977, which became an
anthem for the gay community.
Following Its success, he became
a church minister.

Susan LATI
е | | -Besë known
as singer for US indie pop band,
The Magnetic Fields, she appeared
on their first two albums, 1991's
Distant Plastic Trees and 1992's
Ihe Wayward Bus, before primary
songwriter Stephin Merritt took over
vocal duties.

Photos: (Michael Chapman) Courtesy of Michael Chapman; (Pee Wee Ellis) Facebook

Photo (Jochen Schróder): Facebook

5 September, age /2. The US
guitarist was co-founder of Southern
rockers Black Oak Arkansas, with

a template look for Spinal Tap's
Derek Smalls. Combining rock with
country, blues and gospel, they
achieved three gold albums in the
705, 1973's High On The Hog
gaining them a strong biker following.
Though the band fractured later in
the 705, Reynolds acted as a fulcrum
for sets by new line-ups from the
SOs and continued with releases like
2013's Back Thar М” Over Yonder
and 2019's Underdog Heroes, as
well as touring.

Alemayehu Eshete died

2 September, age 80. “The
Abyssinian Elvis” rose to fame in

the late 60s and was a key figure in
“the golden age” of Ethiopian music.
Marrying funk, jazz and soul with local
styles, he cut 30 singles, several of
which gained him a cult following in
later years via the Ethiopiques

CD series.

Byther Smith died 10
September, age 89. Born in
Mississippi, the bluesman (above)
moved to Chicago in the 505.

In the 605, he worked with Otis
Rush, recorded singles, and played
gospel with The Gospel Travellers.
In the 705, he issued albums,
joined the house band at Theresa's
Lounge, Chicago, and recorded with
Sunnyland Slim. When he retired
from his day job, Byther toured the
world, cutting aloums їп Japan and
the UK. Tony Burke

George Frayne died 26
September, age 77. The US
pianist/vocalist is best-known for
fronting country-rock/boogie woogie
band, Commander Cody & His Lost

Planet Airmen. Formed in Ann Arbor,
in 1967, they acquired a hippy
following, playing country, boogie
woogie, Western swing, jump blues,
rockabilly and rock'n'roll. Debut, Lost
In The Ozone (1971), was followed
by Hot Licks, Cold Steel And Truckers
Favourites (1972), Country Casanova
(19/3) and a live set (19/4). Signing
to Warners, in 1975, he resisted
pressure to switch to soft rock.

The band broke up in the mid-7Os,
but Frayne (as Commander Cody)
continued to tour and record.

Tony Burke

María Mendiola died 11
September, age 69. The vocalist
is best-known as one half of Spanish
disco duo, Baccara, alongside Mayte
Mateos. In 1977, their single, Yes
Sir, | Can Boogie, was a chart-topper
in the UK, Japan and across Europe.
It remains the best-selling single by
a female group, with 18 million

sales (recently re-championed by the
Scotland football team). They issued
four albums before parting ways in
the mid-80s, when the pair fronted
competing versions of Baccara.

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Jochen Schroder died

date unknown, age 58. The
guitarist was co-founder of heavy
metallers, Rage. He played with the
German power-metal outfit from
their formation in 1982 to 1987,
appearing on Reign Of Fear (1986)
and Execution Guaranteed (1987).

Dell Furano died 4
September, age 71. Founding
Winterland Productions with brother,
Dave, and Bill Graham, the US
music entrepreneur was one of the
pioneers of selling band T-shirts

at gigs. They went on to oversee
merchandising/marketing for

The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin,
KISS, Michael Jackson, Madonna
and AC/DC.

Greg Gilbert died 30 September,
age 44. The singer fronted British
indie rockers, Delays. His distinctive
falsetto vocals to the fore, the
group's bright, breezy pop/psych
found Top 30 success with Faded
Seaside Glamour (2004), You See
Colours (2006) and Everything's The
Rush (2008).

George Wein died 13
september, age 95. Co-founder
of the Newport jazz and folk festivals,
the US promoter pioneered modern
music festivals in the 505. Legendary
performances include the career
rebirth of Miles Davis in 1955, and
Bob Dylan's electric band show

in 1965.

Roger Newell died 10
september, age /3. The bassist
is best-known for his work with Yes’
Rick Wakeman. He played on several
of his solo albums in The English
Rock Ensemble, including 1974's
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth,
1975’s The Myths And Legends Of
King Arthur And The Knights Of The
Round Table апа 19765 No

Earthly Connection.

АП McKenzie died 30 April,
age unknown. The vocalist was
a member of The Birds, whose 60s
line-up included Ronnie Wood, and
who issued four singles.

Melvin Dunlap died 12
September, age 76. The US
bassist started as a touring member
of The O'Jays. Joining Charles Wright
& Тһе Watts 103rd Street Rhythm
Band, his bassline was prominent

on their funk-heavy US hit, Express
Yourself. Later joining Bill Withers, he
appeared on several classic tunes,
including Lean On Me and Use Me.

Melvin Van Peebles died 21
August, age 89. Regarded as "the
godfather of modern black cinema,”
and best-known for the film, Sweet
Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the
US film-maker was also a recording
artist, issuing /Os albums merging
funk and spoken-word.

Don Maddox died 12
september, age 98. The US
fiddler/singer was the last surviving
member of honky-tonk/rockabilly
band, The Maddox Brothers &
Rose. Running 1937 to 1956,

they became known as "the most
colourful hillbilly band in the land,"
due to their brightly embroidered
outfits. Their music influenced
honky-tonk and rockabilly, and they
helped popularise the songs of
Woody Guthrie, their 1949 cover of
his Philadelphia Lawyer being their
biggest country hit.

Bob Moore died 22
september, age 88. A member
of Nashville’s legendary “A Team”
sessioneers, the US bassist (above)
enjoyed a long, prolific career, playing
on 1/,000-plus sessions. A child
prodigy, he worked as a session
musician for Decca from 12. He was
prolific in the 50s and 605, appearing
on such classics as Elvis Presley's
Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Kenny
Rogers’ The Gambler, Roger Miller’s
King Of The Road and Patsy Cline’s
Your Cheatin’ Heart. In 1960, he
formed The Bob Moore Orchestra,
whose 1961 single, Mexico, topped
the charts in Germany and Australia.

Paul Pilnick died 17
september, age 80. The UK
guitarist's 605 career took in stints
with The All-Stars, The Big Three and
The Vibrations. The 705 saw him join
an early incarnation of Stealers Wheel
(appearing on their 1972 debut
album), Badger, and art rockers, Deaf
School. He was an early associate of
The Beatles, joining them in Hamburg
in the early 605 and, later, spending
time recording as a sessioneer at
Apple Studios.

Others who passed away recently
include: Bennie Pete, New Orleans
tuba player, who co-founded and led
The Hot 8 Brass Band; Aries ‘Eben’
Tanto, founder/guitarist of Indonesian
metallers, Burgerkill; Adalberto
Alvarez, Cuban pianist, musical
director, composer; Steve Strange,
concert agent/co-founder of X-ray
Touring; Robert Altman, 605 Rolling
Stone magazine photographer, whose
cover images include Tina Turner,
Keith Richards: Matthew Strachan,
best-known for co-composing music
for TV game show, Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire?; Peter Hood, founder
of Australian surf rockers, The
Atlantics; Bruce Keir, guitar amp
innovator/co-founder of Blackstar
Amplification; Ron Cornelius,
sessioneer/producer, who played on
albums by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan,
et al; Harry Coombs, Philadelphia
International label exec, who

helped launch The O'Jays, Teddy
Pendergrass, Lou Rawls; Jerry Blair,
music exec, champion of Latin music;
Leonard William Gibbs Jr, US
percussionist who toured with Anita
Baker, Whitney Houston, Ricki Lee
Jones, et al; Andy Adams, longtime
Led Zeppelin chronicler/convention
organiser; Mick Bridgen, tour
manager for The Rolling Stones, Bob
Dylan, Van Morrison, et al; Sam
Salter, 90s US soul singer; Tim
Akers, US keyboardist, session/
touring musician for Michael
McDonald, Megadeth, Michael
Bolton, et al.

With thanks to Paul Bowler

Record Collector 47

The Frantic Three in their pomp,
with Lancaster flying, right, and,

more recently, inset below

Alan Lancaster cic

eptember, г 2. The bassist
was both co-founder and an integral
member of Status Quo. He helped
establish them as one of the
country’s best-loved, most
successful bands, performing with
them during their most celebrated
years. Born in Peckham, south
London, he first met vocalist Francis
Rossi at Sedgehill Comprehensive
School, Catford, where they
performed together in its orchestra.
They formed a group, The Scorpions,
in 1962, alongside two other
classmates, changing their name
first to The Spectres, then Traffic
Jam, before settling on Status Quo,
with a line-up that saw Lancaster
and Rossi joined by guitarist Rick
Parfitt, drummer John Coghlan апа
keyboardist Roy Lynes.

Success was initially limited,

with the group’s psychedelic sound
yielding the hit 1968 singles,
Pictures Of Matchstick Men and Ice
In The Sun, but negligible sales for
their first two albums, Picturesque
Matchstickable Messages From Ihe
status Quo (1968) and Spare Parts
(1969). After Lynes left, in 1970,
a style-change to boogie-inflected
blues-rock eventually paid off, with
the Top 5 chart success of their fifth

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album, 19/2's Piledriver.

From that point on, their rise was
stratospheric. Armed with a bagful of
catchy songs and a distinctive sound
— with Lancaster's driving basslines
front and centre — Status Quo
established themselves as one of the
UK's premier groups. Тһе statistics
speak volumes about their ubiquity
during their peak years, as they
established themselves as part of
the country's cultural fabric. Their
next 10 albums reached the Top 5.
They were ever-present on BBC TV's
Top Of The Pops, appearing a record
106 times. Their run of singles —
they've issued 100-plus in their
career to date — include such
evergreen hits as Rockin' All Over
The World, Whatever You Want,
Caroline and Down Down. Lancaster
co-wrote several of their songs,
including the hit Ol’ Rag Blues, which
reached the Top 10 in 1983, while
he was lead vocalist on albums and
in concert on tracks such as
Backwater, Bye Bye Johnny, Is There
A Better Way?, High Flyer and
Roadhouse Blues.

With the band at their commercial
zenith, tensions exacerbated by
cocaine abuse rose to the surface.
Coghlan quit in 1980 and, after
Lancaster moved with his family to

Australia, an increasing level of
estrangement followed: 1983's Back
To Back was to be his final album
with the band. Shortly after 1985's
Live Aid show, opened by Status Quo
for a global ТУ audience of over

a billion, he quit and was soon in the
midst of a legal wrangle, as he took
out an injunction to stop Rossi and
Parfitt using the band's name (the
case was settled out of court the
following year).

Lancaster next Joined the
Australian group The Party Boys, with
whom he recorded a hit self-titled
album in 1987, before forming The
Bombers, Lancaster Brewster Band,
and Alan Lancaster's Bombers. He
wrote film soundtrack music for
Indecent Obsession and dipped his
toe into production, overseeing an
album for classical pianist, Roger
Woodward, which achieved platinum
sales in Australia. A meeting there
with Francis Rossi led to reconciliation
with his former bandmate. Тһе
"Frantic Four" line-up of Rossi, Parfitt,
Lancaster and Coghlan reunited as
otatus Quo for a UK tour in 2013-14.
Though Lancaster's health was poor —
he'd been struggling for years with
multiple sclerosis — the shows were
well-received by fans and critics alike.
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Back in the olden days, in January 1990
when Saint Etienne first went into the
studio, there were myriad new pop trends:
Manchesters baggy scene was about to
peak, ditto Daisy Age hip hop, garbled and
joyous Italian house was dominating the
Top 20, and a Balearic alternative — ushered
into the Top 40 by the Beloved’s blissful,
becalmed The Sun Rising — was just around
the corner. It was a most exciting time.

Nineteen eighty-nine had been a long
hot summer, but 1990 felt longer and
hotter. Since the house music explosion of
1987, Britain had had a whistle (or a
dummy) set in its mouth, and it needed a
lie down. February 1990 brought two
records that were made to accompany the
sunrise and would shape the immediate
future: The KLF's Chill Out was a
continuous journey, a perfect post-club
soundtrack, sneaking bits of Fleetwood
Macs Albatross and Acker Bilk’s Stranger
On The Shore into a woozy, reverb-laden
mix; and Andrew Weatherall's drastic remix
of a Primal Scream album track called I'm
Losing More Than ГЇЇ Ever Have —
renamed Loaded - slowed down the pace
on the dancefloor itself, right down to 98
beats per minute.

In 1990, Record Mirror was the most
club-friendly of the four weekly music
papers. It had been since the 70s, thanks to
James Hamiltons in-depth coverage; his
adjective-heavy reviews (^winsome, cooed,
sombre, languidly rolling", “Меерв and
girlish giggles punctuated scrubbing sonic
house raver’) may not have been a thing of
beauty, but they were extremely useful. But
where Hamilton affected dance music most
significantly was as the pioneer of beats-
per-minute. In January 1979, he began
adding a records "bpm" alongside each
review, an incredibly helpful tool for DJs -
come 1990, it would be the basis of a
whole movement.

Within weeks of Loaded and Chill Out
emerging, DJ Paul Oakenfold and former
Mud guitarist Rob Davis had a Top 30 hit
with Joy And Heartbreak under the name
Movement 98. The groups name
encapsulated a feeling, a sound, a rhythm
and a tempo that would be everywhere that
summer. The slo-tempo shuftle-beat had
initially sprung from Camden Towns Soul
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Never mind the Balearics...

1989 with Keep On Моуіп, Back To Life and
their Club Classics Vol.1 album. The 98bpm
sound of 1990 would be a conflation of
various scenes and styles: the street soul of
Keep On Movin; the baggy Madchester
warehouse stylings of The Stone Roses’ Fools
Gold and Happy Mondays’ Wrote For Luck;
the Balearic comedown atmospherics of Chill
Out, 19895 Italian ambient classic Sueno
Latino, with tropical bird sounds like an
updated Martin Denny; conscious rap, which
fed into Q- Tees Afrika and the nascent Bristol
scene; and contemporary reggae and dancehall
records like Karen Whites gorgeous Sly and
Robbie-produced cover version of Sades
Paradise, itself already a Balearic favourite.

The 80s felt boxy and
tinny. The 90s music
was hypnotic and trippy

What almost all of these records shared
was a sense of space. The 80s had felt boxy
and tinny — this music felt almost physically
different. It was as hypnotic and trippy as acid
house had been but, two years on from the
‘second summer of love’, these records also
had a healing quality; its no coincidence that
two of these tracks reach for Martin Luther
Kings "I have a dream" speech. Eleven years
of Margaret Thatchers government came to
an end in late 1990, and the feeling of
possibility was everywhere. As well as political
change, Ecstasy had broken down snob
barriers — you could hear Mr Misters Broken
Wings played out alongside Primal Screams
Come Together, and a white label by spotty
white kids from Londons suburbs could now
sneak into Mixmag Update as easily as an
exclusive imported 12” from Chicago.

It was a modernist sound, grabbing bits of
the past, the feel of the immediate now, and
creating something entirely new. There was a
notable 90s-does-60s vibe, a neo-psychedelia
that didnt involve guitars: Sohos Hippychick
made the Top 10; a cover of Donovans
Barabajagal by The Love-In rumbled along at
90bpm; there were Byrdsian guitars on
Mustnt Grumble by Ariel, who later morphed
into The Chemical Brothers; and Orchestra
JB's Come Alive married speech from Tonight
Lets All Make Love In London to the
harmonica riff from Groovin’ With Mr Bloe.
Major labels were getting behind records as

peculiar and strange as Ben Chapman's
105bpm Erotic Animals, which sounded a
bit like Seal channeling Tubular Bells and the
Cadbury's Flake advert after a lengthy
sojourn in Formentera.

The charts of 1990 would be riddled
with 98bpm records which, while having the
beat down pat, lacked imagination - faithful
covers of Dionne Warwicks Walk On By
(Sybil) and Minnie Ripertons Loving You
(Massivo featuring Tracy) made it onto Top
Of The Pops. There would be more
interesting, peculiar revisits to the past — the
Sweets Love Is Like Oxygen was covered by
ex-Bomb The Bass singer Tacye. Further
out were The Grid’s Floatation, which
married the new-age relaxation method du

jour with Jane Birkin-like breathy sighs;

ВВС Snappiness, which was all sad synth
pads and Eric Satie piano; and The Aloof’s
Never Get Out Of The Boat which
re-imagined Apocalypse Now! as if it had been
shot in Uxbridge.

The parallels of the British dance boom
with first wave punk — dubs flipside in the
late 70s — would be made apparent when Jah
Wobble remixed Primal Screams Higher
Than The Sun with a window-shattering
bassline, and Grant Showbiz — a producer
and roadie for The Fall since the year dot —
helmed the record that encapsulated 1990
98bpm summer, Moodswings Spiritual
High. For a moment, or at least for a
summer, it felt like the perfect future had
already arrived.

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trips of yore

Central London has always had its record
retailers. Flashback, Sounds Of The
Universe, Reckless, Гһе Music & Video
Exchange have all had my custom. There
are many more, and I tip my hat to their
tenacity: they decided decades ago what
they were going to do and kept doing it,
waiting for the vinyl tide to turn, which it
did. I regret the passing of Cheapo Cheapo
in Rupert Street, part-record shop, part-
market stall, a place where music hacks used
to hand over review copies in exchange for
beer money or cash for less acceptable
habits, assuming they didn’t just trade vinyl
for more desirable music. I remember Stiff's
retail outlet round the corner from The
Lyceum; a mostly punk outlet at King's
Cross with a name that escapes me; and
nearby Mole Jazz, which absorbed
lunchtimes when I was a bored steel
salesman. I enjoyed them all. My local
outlet, Small Wonder, was uniquely
characterful. But records were to be found
almost everywhere when I was a kid.

I bought Through The Past, Darkly, its
fancy Dan octagonal sleeve perfectly intact
in the browsers of Boots The Chemist in
Wood Green, North London. A women’s
boutique in Walthamstow High Street
briefly stocked an array of US cut-outs,
where I snaffled Soft Machine Volume 2
among other delights. My dad came home
one teatime with BB King’s LA Midnight,
which a workmate was selling from a box of
other vinyl. I have no idea why my dad
chose that one to treat me to: if he liked any
music, it was Rod Stewart's Maggie Мау
and the now forgotten Deanna Durbin, a
singer the teenage me cruelly called Diana
Dustbin on the rare occasions he treated
himself to the indulgence of her dulcet
tones. And the kids these days think they
invented intergenerational culture wars...

One Sunday afternoon when I was 13,
me and a mate took the tube to Hampstead
in an attempt to lower the tone of this chic
suburb, probably encouraged by parents
desperate for us to sling our ooks. The plan
was to plod round the Heath taking in
traffic fumes, but we stumbled across
another attraction. If you wanted to buy
records on a black or otherwise Sabbath in
the 70s, you had to go to one of the markets
that were almost the only places that sold
anything other than newspapers: markets

maconbia

lan McCann recalls record-buying

such as Petticoat Lane and East Street. But
Hampstead Music Centre was open on a
Sunday. I guess Hampstead was so posh,
trading standards officers couldn't obtain a
visa to get in. It was a decent shop, too,
though I can't for the life of me remember
what I had tucked under my arm afterwards
as we traipsed across the snooty Heath.

Sellanby in South Harrow
became a target. Finding
records was a diversion

Jumble sales were sometimes a place for
vinyl, though Chapel End School's tabletop
extravaganza was thick with the flying
elbows of old ladies in search of a bargain
cardy. It seemed safer to visit a junk shop,
though several that promised "books and
records" actually sold magazines and records,
and the mags were not, uh, hygienic for
body or mind. All the same, one such outlet
revealed a copy of Who Did It! — an
unnecessary question because the magazines
made it perfectly clear everybody did — and I
bought my first James Brown album, the

original Live At The Apollo, in the same shop.

I'd never heard of the former and the latter
eventually led me to abandon rock as a
collectors’ indulgence. But not before a
family holiday in the Lake District saw me
being driven repeatedly past a shop with a
display of Living In The Past in its window,
which tempted me to go and buy it. My
mum warned me it would get ruined in the
tent but I took no notice. By the time we got
home, its full-colour booklet was dangling
free from its housing. There’s nothing worse
than parents being right.

Seaside visits landed unexpected treats: |
found Manfred Mann's The One In The
Middle EP, with its groovy cut of Herbie
Hancock’s Watermelon Man, in a second-
hand shop in Lowestoft. Southend-on-Sea
delivered Shades Of Blue (yes, that one) іп а
charity shop, though it wasn’t a universally
known rarity then and I suspect most record
buyers saw the sleeve and thought “МОК”.
Dave Barker & The Upsetters’ Prisoner Of
Love turned up at The Squirrel’s Drey in
Paignton's appropriately named Winner
Street. The idea that new locations might
offer fresh vinyl took root, and I rarely
visited anywhere without attending the

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town's record store. Carousing in
Wimbledon? Two James Brown albums
from a box outside a shop. Beanos in
Croydon and Record Corner in Balham
were indulged on other missions and
Sellanby in South Harrow became a target.
Finding records was a diversion in itself. On
Saturday mornings I'd hop the Central Line
from Ebony Sounds in Leytonstone, a noted
supplier of soul, to the little shop inside
Wanstead station where I bought a sold-as-
seen Goldring record deck and I Roy's
magnificent debut LP to spin on it. Га root
out jazz and reggae at the markets at
Greenwich on Saturdays and blue beat at
Brick Lane on Sundays. Happy days.

The local record shop, as opposed to
specialist collector 5 outlet, may be all but
dead, though a month ago I was pleased to
notice that Waltham Cross Moondance
Music & Video, a retailer of new music for
decades, remains open. But as for stumbling
across gems, it's obviously tougher today:
more people are looking for them to fuel
eBay listings. But don't give up: a couple of
years ago, I spotted a box of 80s 12”s
plonked on the floor of a plant nursery
I frequent. “А customer brought these in,"

І was told, as if these explained their
presence. “Have a look if you're interested."
You bet I was.

lan McCann is working оп a thesis that
links the economic playing styles of Jimmy
Greaves and James Brown.

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The past, someone said, is a foreign country.
Whoever it was, they didn t work at a record
company. The past is more like a next-door
neighbour these days, or someone who lives
on your lap. Because, while streaming
channels take care of present-day pop,
ensuring that today's young musicians will
always be struggling and starving artists, the
real money for groups is in reissues. This
second alone I have ordered from the shops
boxed sets — boxed planets, more like — by
up n coming new acts like Bob Dylan and
David Bowie. The endless thud of Neil
Young collections follows me wherever I go
and you can t get into HMV without being
assailed by Mark Knopfler's entire solo
catalogue (as Kenneth Tynan said of
Ionesco, once you have heard all of Mark
Knopfler's solo albums, you have heard all
of them) or pounced on by ABBA 5 sinister
computer avatars, who look like Kraftwerk
ataswingers party.

But it is not of reissues that I wish to
speak, but the biggest reissuey moment of the
year, which is, of course, The Beatles’ Get
Back set, aka Let It Be — Happy. If you recall
the premise of this new marketing exercise — I
mean smiling collection of beautiful music —
was that the Let /t Be sessions were not an
unhappy affair at all. The Beatles loved going
to Twickenham at nine in the morning and
singing half-written songs to cameramen. It
was all they'd ever dreamed of. In fact, they
liked it so much that they split up shortly
afterwards to preserve the magic of the whole
thing, and the resulting album was so great
they decided to release it nearly two years
later so people could appreciate how magical
and cheerful it was. No way was it a miserable
experience for all concerned and the songs
resulting from it a garbled hotchpotch of
second-rate material whose low quality was
only emphasised by the singles taken from
the album. I for one can't wait to see Walt
Disney Presents Let It Be.

Га like this approach to be extended to
other groups. For example, you may think of
the final days of the Sex Pistols as a sad and
erubby fizzle to a great rocket blast of a
career, and you may recall Johnny Rotten
sneering, “Ever get the feeling you ve been
cheated?" as a blood-smeared Sid Vicious
plonked out bass notes inbetween fighting
crowd members. But you'd be wrong. No,

the Pistols’ career ended on a high when all
five members reunited at Finsbury Park to
perform a set comprised of Pistols, Public
Image and Professionals songs — and no one
was happier than Sid, who ended a 20-year
engagement by proposing to long-time
fiancée Nancy Spungen onstage.

There are so many bands and artists
whose story could be sold, I mean told, ha ha,
in new ways. Гһе Doors story could be
improved by Jim Morrison taking a shower
instead of a bath, or maybe if that's too harsh,

The Pistols' career
ended on a high when all
five members reunited at
Finsbury Park

focusing on a young, enthusiastic Iggy Pop
auditioning for the band, his sheer love of
rock'n'roll firing up the rest of the band once
more as they go into the studio and record hit
after hit, until finally director Oliver Stone
captures the whole thing for posterity in his
warm-hearted movie, Гле Doors: An
American Love Story. Тһе Beach Boys, too,
would merit a decent, cosy biopic. How
about Those Wilson Boys!? The emotional
tale of Brian, Carl, Dennis — and not
forgetting cousin Mike! — as, led by
experienced music industry veteran Murry,
the young surf nuts find a way to craft a
new sound that takes America, and the
world, by storm, culminating in the much-
respected and critically-acclaimed album,
The Beach Boys’ 20 Golden Greats, a record
so good it inspired Paul McCartney to step
up to the plate and make The Beatles’ own
Oldies But Goldies.

How about Jerry Lee Lewis? I see The
Killer’s story as a kind of wide-eyed, head-
shaking look back at an amazing career. All
those wives! All those legends he was best
friends with! I can see Jerry Lee (played by
James Corden) now, laughing with Elvis
(also played by James Corden), Johnny Cash
(played by James Corden) and Sam Phillips
(played by James Corden). It’s a chance to
present the kindly side of The Killer, to strip
away all the stories and get to the real Jerry
Lee — a kindly Southern gent with a twinkle
in his gun, I mean eye.

There’s no need for this to end. Abba:

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feuding Mark II boys. Death Row: Friends
With Attitude, the story of a small label with
a big heart. With CGI, the passage of time,
and the fortunate passing-away of those who
were there, the possibilities are endless. In
fact, I’m off to copyright the possibilities
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< <7 Luke Haines writes the shuk out of rock'nroll
Voulez-vous? Non, merci!

The past month has seen the tragic
return of a cruel, barbarous regime;
repressors of women, a death cult
presiding over a terrified population,
trying to hide from their overlords’
obsessive quest to rid the theocracy of
fun and pop music. Yes, after decades of
cultural improvements in the west,
ABBA have decided to make a new
record. I hate ABBA.

I wrote those last three words on
Twitter the other week. The full tweet
being approximately, “I hate ABBA.
Music for people to listen to before they
go dogging. In retrospect, I regret the
sleight on the UK’s upstanding (write
your own joke here — Гуе had to listen to
ABBA for this column, I’ve done
enough) dogging community. At least
they know how to have fun!

I’ve suffered the full weight of the
anger of the fans on social media before.
It works a bit like this: the nicer, or more
culturally comfortable, the artist is seen
to be, then the more psychotic the
reaction of the fans. It goes without
saying that the ABBA fans were not
happy. Jeez, you'd have thought Га
written something like, “Ian Brady — not
a bad fella,” rather than writing a few
silly words about an anodyne pop group.

But are they silly words? Well, the
words of ABBA certainly are. But let's
say this one more time (liar): I hate
ABBA. Let's start at the beginning. I was
a precocious pop fan. I make no
apologies. As a 12-year-old I loved the
pop singles of Buzzcocks, Sham, The
Members, The Regents, The
Undertones. ABBA were — in the spirit
of the times — music your pal's dorky big
sister liked. Let's get one thing straight,
though: they weren't girls’ music. I've
done a comprehensive survey of all of
my ex-wives and the results are in: all
my ex-wives hate ABBA, too.

Therefore, we can deduce that ABBA
were not, and are not, "just a girls'
band". And from this comprehensive
survey we can gather new data. We
learn that far from the old cliché of
ABBA appealing to gay men, we now
find that ABBA appeal to middle-aged

straight men.

This last finding makes total sense.
Have you had the stuffing knocked out of
you? Ready to drop? About to have a
breakdown? Then it's time to pilfer your
mum 's record collection and nab her сору
of Voulez-Vous (before she goes in the care
home). No more Residents, Television,
Redskins for you, Mr Lawyer. You are
now a fully-fledged ABBA fan, and you are
about to get divorced and die alone with
your ABBA records, because, according to
the wives and ex-wives of Luke Haines,
middle-aged men who like ABBA are a

"massive turn-off’.

How can a group so
revered not even have
made a good album?

We should talk about the music. I
have never heard an ABBA album in my
life. So, for this column, I have delved into
Spotify. I am charging Record Collector
triple rate (at least) for this. Let's break it
down: ABBA have never made a “decent”
album. How can a group so revered not
even have managed to make a good
album? It's not that difficult. “Propping”
up the tinny, kitsch hits are hours of sub-
Rapido Eurotrash. Sub-sleigh bell ditties
that would even seem depressing alongside
Lena Zavaroni and a grim Rod Hull and
Emu routine оп а grey Saturday Night
Seaside Special mime-through.

And then there are the patronising
deference-to-English-as-second-language
lyrics. The peak for the middle-aged wet-
dreaming ABBA cultural gate-keeper is
surely The Winner Takes It All; a frosty
ditty about intra-band divorces that
seems to have touched a nerve with all

the middle-aged ABBA fans still getting

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over their own tricky divorces. I preferred
the Fathers For Justice charity single: The
Woman Takes It АП, a sly satire on the
difference between Sweden's progressive
legal system and the UK's archaic divorce
laws.

In some ways I feel a bit sorry for
ABBA. They were superseded by the
mighty Carpenters and so were doomed to
emotional coldness. It's as though Benny
and, er, the others, heard Karen C singing
Please Mr Postman and thought, "Hey, we
can do that," and proceeded to write the
disastrous Waterloo, totally
misunderstanding that when Karen sang,
“Deliver the letter the sooner the better”
and big brother Richard gazed into his
sister's eyes like an even more sinister
Marshall Applewhite, she wasn't singing
about the second delivery of the post being
late, our Karen was actually summoning
the black hole of utter human desolation
while invoking the madness of patricidal
Victorian artist Richard Dadd.

There is hope: ABBA's new single, their
first for nearly 40 years, I Still Have Faith
In You, has been a flop. No instant No 1
for you, just a humble Top 20. This isa
healthy indication that the kids could not
give a flying white jump-suit about these
70s peddlers of baby piss.

So, it is up to you, middle-aged men.
Abandon your unhealthy obsession with
the blonde one. Stop pretending that

Benny (or whoever he is) is Brian Wilson.
Do you want to sail into your dotage
with your wife and family, or do you
want to die alone in a rented one-
bedroom flat with your tatty copy of
ABBA Gold beside your decaying corpse?
Tattoo it across your forehead, carve it
on your arm with a compass: “I hate

ABBA".

Luke Haines tweets @Luke Haines News.

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Mob; Karl Wilcox: Diamond Head;
Alex Jansen: Hardline; Charlie Calv:
Angel]. When | approached them,
they were stoked.

Is there anything still unissued?
Some Frostbite cassette demos, plus
hundreds of guitar riffs, solos, bars,
melody lines.

Have you done anything that fans
may not know about?

ме done ghost-playing, but | can't
share what. A lot in Los Angeles in the
805, plus producing/engineering from
the start.

Have you thought of compiling your
side-projects?

A box of Frost solo, leftover tracks, and
unfinished ones from 30 years ago.
With whom'd you like to work?
John Corabi.

Who'd you like to produce?
Inglorious.

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In this last year and a half, | threw
myself into watercolour painting
and visual art, but | didn't do much
music. I've been listening and
thinking about music a lot, and

| managed to craft an album of
'Covid music', dark and minimal

— my response to the past year.
Recording began in September

2020, at home in lower Manhattan.

There was a heightened sense of
anxiety stemming from the then-

upcoming US Presidential elections,

as well as the virus, which seemed
to pervade all aspects of life. The

music's minimal quality reflects the
sense of ‘motionless time’ that many

of us felt – empty streets, nowhere
to go, etc. Music fills one side of

vinyl, the other has an etched image.
It's a pressing of 2,500 copies, with

a hand-signed, numbered poster
based on an electron microscope
image of a Covid molecule, which

| scratched into the vinyl and printed.

I’m hoping to move into some new
things, but | haven't quite worked
out what.

What were your favourite record
shops when you started out?

Manhattan's Bleecker Bob's, Rocks

In Your Head and, especially, Ed
Bahlman's 99 Records on Prince
otreet. But the shop that became

early Sonic Youth's home base was
Pier Platters in Hoboken, Just across
the river. Steve Shelley [drums] lived

in Hoboken, rehearsal spaces were

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cheaper there, and we rehearsed

in a couple of different periods of
the band. The proprietor, Bill Ryan,
stocked the latest domestic and
imported discs, and prime older
stuff. A great place to hang out,
discover records, and talk about
music and bands. It had a down-
home vibe that made it really
comfortable. Ira and Georgia from Yo
La Tengo would drift through, we'd
catch up, trade stories of what we
were up to. In the late 80s, when
we were first getting friendly with
Daniel Johnston, he did a vulnerable,
memorable ‘in-store’ performance.
My video of it is on the net.

What record made you want to
go pro?

My dad brought The Beatles’ first US
singles on VeeJay and Swan home,
when | was eight, in 1964.

| was immediately transfixed,

grabbed a tennis racquet
and started miming in
the mirror.

What was your

first record?
Steppenwolf Monster.
Was anyone in your
family a musician?

My mother was a pianist
— family singalongs,

and supporting ballet
classes. | love to sit at
the keyboard and make
some noise. That early
sense of sitting at the
piano and holding down
a chord - listening to the
strings vibrate and the
sound decay - is not
that far from what | was
trying to do on In

Virus Times.

Have you kept studio notebooks?
We are, between us, nothing if

not archivists: notebooks, photos,
diaries — | kept one for 10 years

on the road. During most of Sonic
Youth’s lifespan, | also kept guitar
tablature-style pictographs of chord
shapes and descriptions of the
sections of each song. We played in
SO many strange tunings and never
knew what chords we were playing!
So, we had to each find our own
system of notating things, so that we
might find our way back there again
at the next rehearsal: “Stooges sect
(4x) > hi-screech > freight train
sound”. Cassette recordings helped
a lot, too, and | tried to snap a few
shots at each session in the 80s
and 90s, as well as Super-8 and,
later, video. I'd like to organise the
best of them, and photographer

when you started out?

Vintage Vinyl, Fords, New Jersey.
What was your first record?

KISS Double Platinum.

What's the last album that

you bought?

Valentine Demos From The Attic.
What record made you want to
go pro?

Montrose's debut.

Was anyone in your family

a musician?

My mum, nightclub singer Rose Star.
What'd you ask your music hero?

Neil Schon, how he comes up with such

melodic solos?

Who's changed music in the
last decade?

The Hu.

Who'd you like to cover one of
your songs?

Richie Kotzen, Passage То The
Other Side.

Dying peacefully on your deathbed,
what'd you like to hear?

Marc Cohen, Walking In Memphis.

Brothers In Arms is on Deko.

friends helped document stuff in our
studio on Murray Street, our creative
‘clubhouse’ for over a decade. Тһе
band has an extensive archive of
studio mastertapes, live tapes,
posters — a living, growing archive
that we're trying to expand

and preserve.

Who's taken music forward in the
last decade?

Kanye West. And back when we
were making Daydream Nation, we
worked in the same studio across
the hall from Public Enemy, who
were creating /t Takes A Nation Of
Millions and Fear Of A Black Planet
in those years. We marvelled at the
radical production moves of Hank
schocklee, Eric Sadler and Bomb
squad. They were changing music
with avant-garde, boundary-pushing
sounds and techniques, adding to
the musical language in their

unique way.

Have you ever collected anyone?
For the artists | love, l'm something
of a completist — original pressings,
no matter what condition. | still play
vinyl: holding the album, reading the
credits, looking at the art, getting
off on a good package — whether it
be by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Joni
Mitchell, the Velvets, Pavement,
The Minutemen, Circuit Des Yeux,
Jandek, Harry Bertoia. And then
there’s Laura Nyro and the perfumed
inner sleeve that came with the Eli
And The Thirteenth Confession LP.
I’m currently searching for early Allen
Ginsberg recordings.

Lee Ranaldo In Virus Times
turquoise mini-LP/poster is on
Mute, 12 November.

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What movie could your new

set soundtrack?

A very quiet, serene, lovely movie.

Is there anything still unissued?
Cassette explorations from the late
TOs, early 80s.

What was your first record?
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers’ Why
Do Fools Fall In Love?

What's the last album that

you bought?

Ahmad Jamal Poinciana.

What record made you want to
£o pro?

Oscar Peterson We Get Requests.
Was anyone in your family

a musician?

My mother sang in a church choir.
Did you ever write songs 'under
the influence’?

| Am Ocean, sacred cannabis.
What'd you ask your music hero?
Silvia Nakkach. What's the major
source of your inspiration?

What's the oddest circumstance
that's inspired a song?

Hanging out with an elder of the Great
White Brotherhood — Cosmic Joe.

JULIE EDWARDS

One half of US rock duo,
Deap Vally, on their latest

What film could your new

set soundtrack?

Natural Born Killers.

Is there anything still unissued?
l've got a trove of unreleased stuff
from my first band, Pity Party. We
loved to write and record, but hated
releasing it, so there's almost nothing
out there. We did revisit some old
tracks and released one last year

as Heads Are Heavy - That Sounds
Okay. More will be coming, when

| get motivated again.

With whom would you like to make
a split 7”?

Metz. [hey melt faces and blow minds
- Nerdvana.

What was your favourite record
shop when you started out?

| always loved vintage furniture shops
and charity shops that happened to
have records - the deepest treasure
hunts. l'd love finding weird things,
like a recording of a 705 high

school marching band, or
promotional vinyl about a new
housing development. Random.
What record made you want

to go pro?

Failure Fantastic Planet.

Is anyone in your family

Which of your songs is the most
personally meaningful?

Reborn In Virginia.

Of all the people that you've
worked with, who taught you

the most?

Brian Eno — recording, experimenting,
creating a home studio.

If you had a record-listening party,
what'd you play, and who'd

you invite?

Vision Songs Vol 1. Douglas McGowan
at Numero Group.

Is there a myth about you that
you'd like to set straight?

That everything | wear Is orange.
Who'd you most like to

record with?

Stanley Clarke.

Which of your lyrics would you like
to see on a T-shirt?

| Can Only Bliss Out F'days.

What unfulfilled ambitions do

you have?

To conduct a global laughter release
for inner stress relief.

Dying peacefully on your
deathbed, what'd you like to hear?
Nadam.

NOUS/Laraaji/ArjiOceAnanda
Circle Of Celebration LP is
due on Our Silent Canvas in 2022.

a musician?

My brother, Greg Edwards, was

in Failure and Autolux. This music
completely shaped my tastes and
creativity. My husband, Phil Pirrone,
is in JJUUJJUU.

Did you ever write songs 'under
the influence’?

Being a drummer, that never really
gelled with jamming. Especially in
Pity Party. | needed complete focus.
What would you ask your

music hero?

Trent Reznor. Can | do some backing
vocals for you?

What's the oddest circumstance
that's inspired a song?

The unsolved JonBenét

Ramsey murder.

Who's taken music forward in the
last decade?

Billie and Phineas Eilish.

Have you ever collected anyone?
Elliott Smith. When he died, | went on
an eBay spending spree.

What record are you looking for?
Lusk Free Mars. My brother played
on it. It's a side-project of Tool's Paul
D'Amour. Super proggy.

Who'd you like to cover

one of your songs?

Beyonce, Teenage Queen. She'd kill it.
Of all the people that you’ve
worked with, who taught you

the most?

KT Tunstall — her level of

GARY HOLT
Exodus guitarist on the US
thrashers’ latest

What film could your new

set soundtrack?

It’s the soundtrack to the

end of the world! So, any
apocalyptic movie.

Is there anything unissued in
the archive?

One song from for our first record
is lurking lost somewhere.

Who would you like

to produce?

Municipal Waste. It'd be the best
time ever!

Where were you when you

first heard one of your songs
on vinyl?

At my parents’ house, when

| received my first test-pressing of
Bonded By Blood, which | still have.
What was your favourite record
shop when you started out?
Record Exchange, Walnut

Creek, California.

What was your first record?

The Partridge Family.

What's the last album that

you bought?

HAIM Women In Music Pt III.
What record made you want to
Во pro?

Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo! My
favourite live record ever.

Did you ever write songs 'under
the influence’?

In the early days, all of them!

Pot, mostly.

Have you kept studio notebooks?
Tons. | have an entire archive

of stuff.

Have you ever collected anyone?
Prince, my hero.

Who'd you like to cover one of

professionalism, shreddy chops,
preparation and inspiration. She's the
complete creative package. We made
High Horse together on our upcoming
album, which also features Peaches.
Would you change any of your
artwork, given the chance?

| love the artwork for FEMEJISM, but

the original idea was to have our
friend Rachel McCollum create

a guerrilla art installation on

a random wall in Berlin, then we'd
photograph it. But we went with this
whole other beautiful direction.
What fact about you may

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your songs?

AC/DC — Brain Dead. | borrowed
heavily from them.

What fact about you may
surprise your fans?

| love gardening.

Which of your own lyrics would
you like to see on a T-shirt?

| believe in nothing, least of all in
the word of shit.

Which of your former homes
should have a blue plaque?

My childhood home, where we laid
the foundation of the music that
we play.

Dying peacefully on your
deathbed, what'd you like

to hear?

My Way.

Exodus Persona Non Grata CD/
BD, 2LP, red, blue, gold, green,
purple, mint, beer, mustard,
bone 2LPs, box set, are on
Nuclear Blast, 19 November.

surprise your fans?

| was obsessed with musical theatre
until | was 17.

If you had a record-listening party,
what'd you play, and who'd you
invite to discuss it?

Radiohead, OK Computer. Members
of Phantom Planet, Teen Heroes,
Maroon 5.

What's your favourite songwriter's
best lyric?

сат Coombs, from Quasi: “Life is
dull, life is grey/At its best, it's just
okay/But I’m happy to report, life is
also short."

Which of your own lyrics would you
like to see on a T-shirt?

It's the End of the World.

What unfulfilled ambitions do

you have?

| just started a Masters in
Criminology, Law & Society. | want

to be a courtroom expert witness,

to make investigative true crime
podcasts, a home improvement show,
work for the Innocence Project, have
an acting career, and also a hit single
and a Grammy.

Dying peacefully on your
deathbed, what'd you like

to hear?

Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music

For Airports.

Deap Vally Marriage is on Cooking
Vinyl, 19 November.

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inger, songwriter, guitarist, and
bass drum/hi-hat cymbal pounder
John Fiddler was a live sensation
then a chart star in 70s bluesy
roots-rocking duo Medicine Head.
Their gentle 1969 debut single,
His Guiding Hand, was recorded in the
kitchen, while their onstage clamour went
on to be loved by the punk generation.
After splitting, Fiddler fronted British
Lions, featuring former Mott The Hoople
chums, and Box Of Frogs, a Yardbirds
reunion with the likes of Jeff Beck and
Jimmy Page, while harp whiz partner
Peter Hope-Evans played with fan Pete
Townshend. Fiddler, long a solo act, has
returned to basics, setting up Living Room
Records and recording – in his living room
— a new Medicine Head album, Warriors

Of Love.

Medicine Head were John Peel’s first
signing to Dandelion Records. How did
that happen:

We knew if we could get to John Peel, we
might stand a chance of getting somewhere.
He was appearing in Wolverhampton and we
turned up early and said we were Jethro Tull,
the band that was booked. The door guy let
us in and everything was fine — until Jethro
Tull showed up! They let us play for 15
minutes. John reckoned he saw us for a
minute, hed been out buying chips, and told
us to send him a tape. So, somebody loaned
us an old recorder and we made a tape in the
kitchen of the cottage we rented on a
Staffordshire farm, in the middle of nowhere.

As simple as that?!

A telegram arrived — we had no phone. It was
John: "Call me." So, we walked to the village,
called and he said, “I love this. I’ve played it
to John Lennon and he loves it. He and Yoko
were over the moon and want me to put it
out as it is. I played it to Eric Clapton and he
said you have to do something with this. And
Pete Townshend.”

Did you suddenly find yourself in a
different world?

John Peel said, "You need to come to
London.” We said, “We dont have a penny"
апа he said, "Well send you money.” We
arrived at John’s house in Regents Park, one
of those mews houses, and there's Marc
Bolan sitting cross-legged on the floor. We
signed with John on Lennons insistence.
John put out the kitchen tape as a single then
we went into a studio and recorded the
album New Bottles Old Medicine |1970], did
it just like a gig and that was it.

And your live act was a respite from prog
rock...

We were very Heath Robinson in our
approach. I'd found this orchestral bass drum
in a junk shop. I used to beat the hell out of
it — it was rotting, so every time we played
there would be a pile of sawdust. So we could
play gigs wed brought a Vauxhall Victor and

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with...
John
Fiddler

Interview: Nick Dalton

"Peter didn't like what
happened. People said
we'd sold out"

I hit a lamppost leaving the scrapyard. I'd
never driven, had no licence, no idea about
insurance but drove all over the country with
it falling to pieces underneath us.

Then there were the hits...

There was (And The) Pictures In The Sky
[Мо 22, 1971] but when it was a hit Peter
reacted quite strongly; he didnt like what
happened. A lot of people said wed sold out.
We had changed — but not what our ideas, or
thoughts, were. Then there was One And
One (Is One) [No 3, 1973] which I wrote as
a homage to Fats [Domino] with that rolling
beat but I played it on the guitar when it
should have been piano and for some reason
it was a hit. My favourite was Slip And Slide
[No 22, 1974] because it was a direct
homage to Slim Harpo, a very unlikely hit —
its in Lulus Top 10 favourite records,
apparently!

But things seemed to change?

Wed added three side men and Peter felt
threatened, left out. He felt the dynamic had
changed and it had, dramatically: there was

OPINION

nowhere near the same intensity. And wed
been ripped off by management companies
and we had nothing. I was left with all the

bills.

But the band did have another go...

Pete Townshend had let us record at his
studio; his generosity was fantastic... And
Chas Chandler was managing us. We were
getting back together, just us, and we hit the
road and it was coming up to punk time and
they loved what we were doing, couldnt
believe the noise we made, just two of us. The
Damned and The Clash were fans. And then
Pete decided to leave. And we never played
together again.

What happened next?

I joined up with the guys from Mott The
Hoople as British Lions; the punks loved
them, too. Га written a song for Peter and
myself, One More Chance To Run,
autobiographical. But it applied to Mott, too.

Yet ironically, punk saw off the glam-tinged
Lions and then there were Frogs...

We signed with Epic in New York, where Jeff
Beck was signed. We had a fantastic time. We
were No 1 album and No 1 rock track on the
Billboard airplay charts. Heavy rotation
МТУ. We were poised to go over there and

I couldnt wait but some of the Yardbirds
didnt want to tour so it took the wind out

of the sails.

And then you moved to the States in

the 90s?

After floating around California, I was in
Arizona, frontman at Memphis Blues and
Barbecue, a bar, club and restaurant in Mesa,
Phoenix. I had a name over there, people
loved the place, we had lines waiting to get in,
seven nights a week. It worked really well
until the city brought in a non-smoking
ordnance — along with hundreds of other
restaurants it knocked us out.

You came home, there were solo records,
and the 2011 Medicine Head album
Fiddlersophical. And now back to home-
grown music:

I wanted a label, to put out some singles —

a retro-future philosophy. The first was
Medicine Head's Warriors Of Love, now
theres Chinese Whispers, and the album has
followed. It features Morgan Fisher, an old
friend from British Lions, on keyboards,
guitarist Dzal Martin, who was in Box Of
Frogs — and Belinda Campbell, a fabulous
singer who I produce and whose debut single,
Painkiller, is on the label. It's still lo-fi —

I dont like cluttered stuff — with analogue
equipment alongside the digital. And there
will be live dates, both solo and with a band.
Its fantastic — I've reclaimed my life!

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It's been said that The Thess founder and sole constant Matt Johnson writes songs
for small bedrooms and spacious minds, and there were certainly a lot of takers for his
late-20th century musings on love, loss and religion. But at the start of the millennium,
he walked away from the music industry, seemingly for good. Over the past two
decades, via soundtracks, activism and the occasional song, Johnson has tentatively
re-emerged, his return made complete by this month's multi-media document of The
The's 2018 Comeback Special tour and talk of a new album. “If I can't write anything

out of the past two years,” he tells Wesley Doyle, 1 might as well give up.

hen Matt Johnson walked out in
front of a capacity crowd at the
Royal Albert Hall on 5 June
2018, it had been nearly 17
years since he'd last set foot on a
London stage. After that
performance, at David Bowie’s 2002
Meltdown Festival, Johnson all but retired
from the music industry. He was a long time
in the wilderness, where he battled creative
inertia, self-doubt, personal upheaval and,
tragically, multiple familial bereavements.

It was a far cry from Johnson’s 80s and 90s
heyday. With a difficult and spiky reputation
— although this is refuted by those who know
him — Johnson pushed himself, and anyone up
the task of working with him, to health-
threatening extremes. The resulting albums —
Soul Mining, Infected and Dusk — made an
artform of self-examination (some might say
self-laceration), while The The’s ever-
revolving line-up created music of both
searing intensity and warm introspection.

Perhaps some sort of burn-out was
inevitable, but after the lack of label support for
2000's NakedSelf, Johnson sought to extricate
himself from the industry that had employed
him since a teen and find an alternative route to
leading a creative life. It was a slow process.

"It was hard because during the time I
spent away, I went to some dark places in my
head," he says today. "Td lost a lot of interest

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in the things I enjoyed and Га started to
forget what I was good at, who I was, really.”

His friends rallied round, erstwhile The
The guitarist Johnny Marr telling him how
fans were always asking when they were going
to do new stuff together and friend and
collaborator JG “Foetus” Thirlwell sending
him а copy of The Inertia Variations, a poem
by John Tottenham that could have been
written specifically about Johnson.

The poem was key to shaking him from
his torpor, and it eventually became the title
of a 2017 documentary detailing Johnson's
artistic return through his soundtrack work,
local activism and Radio Cinéola broadcasts.
It also featured the first new The The song for
over a decade, although this was tinged with
sadness as We Can't Stop Whats Coming was a
tribute to Johnson's brother Andrew, who
had died the previous year.

However, the project invigorated Johnson,
and in 2018 he reactivated The The as a live
band and undertook a world tour, which is
celebrated this month in the multi-media
release, The Comeback Special. Johnson's
calendar is now filling up, not least with
working on songs for a new The The album.

So, is the /nertia Variations iteration of
Matt Johnson a thing of the past? "Oh yeah,
he's gone," Johnson laughs. "Although I'm so
busy all the time now, I might need to bring
him back at some point."

In the late 60s, your parents ran the Two
Puddings, an infamous East End pub
where The Who and The Kinks played.
Did growing up surrounded by music
inspire you to make it a career?

It's hard to know, really, because I can't put
myself in the shoes of someone else. My older
brother Andrew and I were too young to
watch the bands. But we would hear music
coming up through the floorboards and we'd
go down when the pub was closed and play
on the instruments. So I was attracted to
music at a young age, which I think was a
healthy thing, as appreciating any art is part of
the development of one's brain.

Andrew worked in the visual arts [þe
created much of The The’s artwork under
the name Andy Dog] and your youngest
brother Gerard is a film director. Was
your parents' encouragement important
in all your careers?

Yes, very much. Our dad was quite a political
person, he wanted to be a writer, and our
mother would like to have been in interior
design or fashion, but it was hard for working
class people to get involved in the arts back
then. I think there's a degree of frustration for
people of their generation who had creative
ambitions, as they knew they could never be
fulfilled. The next best thing was for their
children to be creatively fulfilled.

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Keith Laws in an early incarnation of The The, 1979; (I-r) Jim Thirlwell, Andy Dog and Stevo join Johnson as extras for a The The photoshoot, 1982

They must have found it gratifying when
you three brothers were so successful.

Yeah, it was good for mum and dad, they were
very proud of us. And I think our brother who
died very early on [Eugene Johnson passed away
suddenly іп 1989] also had a huge amount of
energy and was a lovely person, and would
have been successful at whatever he had chosen
to do, too.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of
your debut album, Burning Blue Soul, made
in your late teens. What's your abiding
memory of that period?

I remember it being a very creative time, full of
really lovely, encouraging people. There was
very little money around but that didn’t matter.
I was on the dole, but as I didn’t go to college, I
always considered that as a sort of arts grant.

I wasn’t a fan of punk but there were a
wonderful couple of years following, which
was one of the most fertile times in British
music. It was a small scene so I got to know a
lot of artists like Throbbing Gristle, JG
Thirlwell and Cabaret Voltaire quite well, and
I was also hanging around the different record
labels such as Rough Trade, Mute and Fetish.

Although ГА been in bands since I was
about 11, I was really keen to get some records
out. Га already appeared on The Gadgets’ first
album Gadgetry [1980] and Га released the
Controversial Subject [1980] single on Ivo
Watts-Russell’s label 4AD. I was also just
getting involved with Stevo [Pearce,
legendarily eccentric founder of the Some
Bizzare label]. Ivo gave me the opportunity to

do a solo album, so he and I went to
Spaceward Studios in Cambridge, worked
during the day and slept on the floor at night.
That became Burning Blue Soul.

There are a few unreleased albums from
this period: Spirits [1979] and The
Pornography of Despair [1982]. What
happened to those?

Well, there was also See Without Being Seen
[1979], which I consider my first album and
was recorded at De Wolfe studio in Soho,
where I was working, and a little studio I had
in my parents’ pub, The Crown in Loughton.
I made up a limited amount of cassettes,
photocopied the sleeves and sold them at
gigs. [See Without Being Seen was made
widely available on Johnson’s own Cinéola
imprint last year].

Spirits was the album between that and
Burning Blue Soul, from which only one track
has ever been released [What Stanley Saw on
the Cherry Red compilation, Perspectives And
Distortion, 1981]. It's far more accomplished
than See Without Being Seen; Y ve been
coming across tracks while digitising my
archive and I think it's a really strong album.

I he Pornography of Despair was supposed
to be the successor to Burning Blue Soul but
Stevo came along and CBS got involved, so
my life changed. I went from being an
independent artist to a major label artist and
The Pornography Of Despair got stuck in the
middle. Some of the tracks ended up being
used on the Soul Mining project — for
instance, Perfect and The Sinking Feeling —

"SOUL MINING WAS TRYING
TO COMBINE SONGWRITING
AND FILM MUSIC"

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and some songs ended up on the cassette
version of the album.

Signing with CBS was a big leap. Despite
his reputation, Stevo certainly seemed to
get things done.

When I met Stevo I was in my late teens and
he was even younger than me. Га been on the
dole for a couple of years and though I loved
working with Ivo at 4AD particularly, I was
getting worn down by signing on and living
hand-to-mouth in a bedsit.

In Мау 82, Stevo managed to get London
Records to pay for a trip to New York to work
with producer Mike Thorne [Soft Cell, Wire]
but without them owning what I recorded.
That trip was quite magical and what we came
back with was Uncertain Smile, which is the
most commercial thing I’ve done, before or
since. Stevo then got various record companies
into a bidding war and CBS won. I was happy
to go with them because they had Bob Dylan,
Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen — an album
artists label and quite glamorous.

For good or bad, Stevo was a larger-than-
life character who did his own thing. Some of
the shenanigans made me wince while others
I found hilarious. I have mixed feelings
looking back; Гіп never comfortable with
people feeling bullied or humiliated but I
didn’t have such a problem when certain
people in the industry got what they deserved.

The first The The album, Soul Mining,
emerged in 1983. Even though it was pretty
successful at the time, it didn’t seem to get
the recognition it merited until it was
reissued in 2014.

It's one of those records where its reputation
has grown with time and it's become a bit of a
classic, really. Га just moved to Braithwaite
House in East London [where the Kray
brothers were arrested for the final time in
1968] with my new girlfriend and I wrote

Photos: Anne Weight; Pete Ashworth; Nicola Tyson; AJ Barratt; Lawrence Watson

THE THE

Striking miner (І-г): Matt Johnson in 1983; body-painted for a photoshoot іп 1986, around the time of Infected; shooting the video for that album's
lead single Heartland, with its memorable refrain, "This is the 51st state of the USA"; with Johnny Marr promoting 1993's Dusk

This Is Тһе Day there. I remember being in
tears when I was writing it; it just made me
very emotional. I do sometimes cry when I
write songs, if I feel Tm expressing something
honestly and being true to myself.

Soul Mining was recorded at The Garden
studio in Shoreditch — which was owned by
John Foxx at the time — with Paul Hardiman
co-producing. We had some great session
musicians in to play, including Jools
Holland, and also friends like Zeke
Manyika, Thomas Leer, JG Thirlwell.

I think the album has a certain vitality that
comes from the range of instrumentation.
Every song is unique: there are marimbas
and cellos on one and an accordion and
fiddle on another. Not having a fixed line-up
gave me the freedom to create something
very cinematic. I’m a big fan of soundtracks
and atmosphere, and Soul Mining was an
attempt to combine traditional songwriting
with film music, in a way.

Did the decision not to tour Soul Mining
lead to 198675 Infected becoming such a
huge multimedia project? Or was it always
your intention to move into other mediums?
It was а combination, really. There was a lot of
pressure on me to tour Soul Mining but I knew
it was gonna be very difficult to recreate the
album live. CBS weren't very happy with that,
but I stuck to my guns, rightly or wrongly.
Going into /nfected, there was even more
pressure to go out on the road, but the way the
album was developing, I knew again it was
going to be very difficult to do it justice live.
So Stevo twisted CBS's arm to fund a long-
form video album, on the proviso that I'd take
it around the world in place of a tour. And I
have to give him a lot of credit, he really
hammered them, and they gave the equivalent
in today's money of well over a million pounds
to a young, up-and-coming artist to fly to
South America and New York to make a film.

It must be a source of disappointment that
the Infected film hasn't been commercially
available since its video release in the 80s?
Yes, it is. We did some screenings a couple of
years ago at the ICA in London, which were
very well attended. The afternoon of the first
screening, І went down there by myself to
watch the film through to check the sound. It
was the first time Га watched it for decades
and it looked so intense and vivid, I was
blown away.

ve spoken before about my ongoing
problems with Sony, but the fact is Гуе never
received a royalty from all the records I’ve
sold. Those old deals were just so bad — we all
know the story, it's not just me, it's across the
board. I actually ended up worse off from the
2014 Soul Mining reissue as all the remastering
and repackaging costs were put onto me. So
when they asked me to work on an Infected
one, I said, Why on earth would I want to do
that? It's a bit frustrating because it would be
nice to remaster not only the /z/fected film but
also the Versus The World and From Dusk ‘Til

Dawn films, too, and get them back out there.

You formed a band for 1989's Mind Bomb.
Was this you finally bowing to pressure
from CBS?

The thing is, if I get pressured to do
something, ГЇЇ do the opposite! By this point,
CBS had given up so that's when I thought,
you know what, I’m going to put a band
together. А couple of things happened, the
first being that Stevo and I parted company at
the end of the Infected campaign. It was а
difficult time because I was very fond of him
but without going into too much detail, things
were getting completely out of control, so I
had to distance myself.

Secondly, I was backstage at an Iggy Pop
eig and Johnny Marr, who was an old mate,
was there. We hadn't seen each other since
The Smiths became very successful and we'd

always talked about working together, so we
both agreed to do something. I'd already
started Mznd Bomb, with Warne Livesey and
Roli Mosimann, who were my co-producers
on Infected, and we'd done Armageddon Days,
with myself on guitar and former ABC
drummer Dave Palmer and James Eller who'd
played bass with Julian Cope.

When news came out that Johnny had left
The Smiths, I gave him a call. He came round,
we sat up all night chatting, and by the
morning he'd joined the band. There was such
a fantastic chemistry between the four of us
and we all knew that it shouldn't just be a
studio thing. In fact, it could well have been
Johnny's suggestion to take it on the road.

You kept the same band for 1993’s Dusk,
which was a commercial high point, even
though it came from tragedy.

As the band was so strong, I really wanted to
capture how we sounded live. By this stage, Га
bought The Garden from John Foxx and we
set up camp down there. I kept the studio very
dark, with incense burning and old oil lamps
going — Dave used to call it the "psychic
sauna’. [he studio would be hot, dark and
intense but it got results — it's one of my
favourite albums.

It was written in the shadow of Eugene's
death and was a very hard album to make. The
loss had such a terrible effect on my family and
the grief really took it out of me. On previous
albums I was always very sharp in the studio
and paid attention to the minutest detail, but
on Dusk I was spaced-out a lot of time.

Although I think it's that particular band's
finest hour, ironically the line-up was starting
to disintegrate at that point. Dave had stuff
going on in his personal life, Johnny had
started working with Bernard Sumner on
Electronic and James got offered a solo deal.

Also, all of them had children — I was the last

one to have kids — so they were understandably

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a bit torn. And I think that's what makes it,
for me anyway, such a beautiful album. There

was a real emotion in those sessions.

Even now, 1995's Hank Williams covers
album Hanky Panky seems an odd artistic
choice. How do you feel looking back:

I really like it. It may seem an anomaly, but it
was supposed to be part of a series of records: I
planned to do a Robert Johnson album as well
as several other great singer-songwriters.

In my mind, it seemed a natural thing to
do. Yes, Гт a musician, a producer, a singer,
but if I had to choose just one term, it would be
songwriter. I’m fascinated by the tradition of
songwriting and how it evolved, how certain
elements originated in England, Europe, and
Africa as well. And the fact that we've ended up
with this form that is so global, that each new
generation filters through their own experience.

Oddly, Hanky Panky is another album
that seems to have grown in people's affection
over the years. I know it was better received in
America and Hank 's biographer wrote me a
lovely note.

NakedSelf [2000] was released at a time
when the industry was in turmoil. You
ended up bankrolling the tour and lost a lot
of money. Did you feel you might go down
along with the industry?

Yes, it was an unhappy time. Getting it made
was difficult enough, because there was the
Gun Sluts album, which Sony didn t like
[some rough mixes of which were recently
released through Cinéola's Official Bootleg
series], but once VakedSelf was finished, I
realised it was going to fall through the cracks.

The actual creative process was a lot of fun.
I was living in New York and worked very
closely with guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, and
had Spencer Campbell on bass and Earl
Harvin on drums — a wonderful band. We'd
found this amazing little studio called Harold
Dessau Recording and it was one of my
favourite ever studios. Sonically, I felt we were
breaking new ground. We were utilising a lot
of analogue techniques and old equipment, no
digital reverbs or keyboards. It was a tough-
sounding album and I was very proud of it.

But Sony couldn t hear a single, so I said,
"Well, I'm an album artist, I’m not going to
suddenly start pulling hit singles out of my
hat”. I was at the end of my contract so I was
able to take the album elsewhere.

I was approached by Trent Reznor's label
Nothing, which was an imprint of Interscope,
part of Universal and Polygram and Seagram
and Vivendi... and it was a disaster. The
upshot was that poor old NakedSelf got lost. |
went on a 14-month tour and about halfway

Bald ambition (clockwise from top left): Johnson in 2000 around the time of NakedSelf; with current
bandmates (1-г) Earl Harvin, DC Collard, Barrie Cadogan and James Eller; circa Moonbug in 2012

through funding effectively came to an end.
But it was a bit like The Charge Of The Light
Brigade: 1 believed in the album so much, I

just carried on and on. And it did exhaust me,
in more ways than one.

David Bowie asked you to appear at his
Meltdown festival in 2002, but rather than
do a The The set, you enlisted Jim Thirlwell
and filmmaker Benn Northover to
collaborate on a glitchy, electronic
multimedia performance. The reaction was
quite mixed...

Yeah, it was really extreme and in a way I kind
of liked that rather than having a wishy-washy
response. You had people absolutely loving it
and others who, I was told, hated it so much a
fight broke out. It was radical and unusual but
my feeling is, if you like a record, it's not going
anywhere, it's safe, trapped on vinyl or CD,
and it's always going to sound the same. Why
not be open-minded, and allow people to do
something different?

How do you go about balancing that
experimental side with your traditional
songwriting sensibility?

I feel the two coexist very comfortably within
me. I love experimental music but I also love
sitting with an acoustic guitar. As for where
that comes from, the best example I can give is
The Beatles’ “White Album”. Andrew and 1
would play it all the time when we were kids,
and I suppose the diversity within that one

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MUCH, IJUSI CARRIED ON AND
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record must have had an impact on me. Why
shouldn't one song be as far removed from the
one that preceded as possible?

In recent years, my soundtrack work has
allowed me to play purely with sonics, which I
really love, but Гуе also been getting back to
more traditional songwriting for the next The

The album.

After NakedSelf and the Meltdown show,
you basically walked away from the

music industry.

I felt burnt out, I didn’t feel inspired, and, most
importantly, I didn't want to sign another deal.
I pleaded to be let out of my contract with
Universal early, which they agreed to, because I
said I just didn t want to make any more music
with them. I got other offers, but I couldn't go
back to the old way of working.

So, I took a lot of time off, travelling and
just taking care of personal stuff with my family
in England as well as my Swedish family
[Johnson has a son with Swedish photographer
and film director Johanna St Michaels]. But
time goes fast and before you know it, one,
two, three years had gone by.

Johanna and I separated but we have a good
friendship and when she started making
documentaries, she asked me to supply some
music, which was a way of getting back into the
water, without getting my head wet [Johnson's
music was used in St Michaels’ short films Best
Wishes, Bernhard (2004), Snapshots From Reality
(2005) and The Track (2007)]. It was very
enjoyable and it led to writing the soundtrack to
[brother] Gerard's film Tony іп 2010.

Around the same time, you started the Radio
Cinéola broadcasts, 15-minute collections of
dialogue, soundscapes and unreleased music

based around a theme.

I loved those. In 2010 I was doing one a month
and I’ve done several specials since. They were

Photos: Johanna Saint Michaels; John Claridge; Christie Goodwin

Photo: Jack Monsoon

Alias Smith and Johnson: Matt with Johnny Marr after guesting at the guitarist's
November 2018 London Roundhouse show; (above right) in the studio, 2019

very eclectic, playful and experimental. And a
lot of humour was involved.

Your first new song for 10 years, You Can't
Stop What's Coming, was a tribute to
Andrew who died in 2016, and featured in
St Michaels’ The Inertia Variations doc.
Yes, it was Johanna nagging me to finish that
song for the documentary that led to me
touring again, so we ve got her to thank for all
this! But there was such a wonderful response to
that song and the Comeback Special tour, it
reminded me of what I had been missing. I felt
huge affection for the audience and I felt
affection back — it was really lovely.

The set list from the Comeback Special tour
featured songs from right across your
catalogue. Was that important?

Yes, because I hadn t toured for so long, I felt it
should be both overview and retrospective. The
band had a new member in Little Barrie
Cadogan [Little Barrie, Primal Scream], who
was hand-picked by Johnny, and has worked
out brilliantly, and DC, James and Earl Га
played with before. So it was important to have
that overview but also to reinterpret the songs.
Some of them are consistent with the album
versions — it would be a mistake to change
Uncertain Smile, for instance — but other songs
such as Like A Sun Rising, Soul Catcher and

Beyond Love, we pushed in new directions.

You recorded a live album of the tour at the
RAH, a couple of days after losing your
father. You've said he would have wanted
you to carry on — but what was going
through your mind on stage?

Well, it was complicated because we were
being filmed. It sounds clichéd, but you've got
to be professional in such moments. I was very
confident in the band, and knew that if I made
a mistake, they would cover for me.

Oddly, I had no nerves at all during the
entire tour. I should have felt under a lot of
pressure, but I didn’t. And I did wonder if all
the bereavements within my family had
something to do with that. Really, what on
earth is there to be afraid of going onto the
stage with a few thousand really nice people
wanting you to do your best?

My only concern on the night was if my
mind wandered, so I had to put my dad out of
my thoughts in the nicest possible way. Until
the end of the show, during Lonely Planet
when I sang, "All the people you've ever loved,
All the people you've ever lost,” and I was
looking at the box where he would have been
sitting and that was quite emotional for me.

Will the Comeback Special band be playing
on new The The material?

That was the plan but then Covid knocked
everything for six. We all want to, it's just a case
of when we can line everything up. There are
other people I'm planning on working with,
too, although I can’t say who they are yet. But
I'm feeling very positive about the new record.

Гуе got a mental image of you as a young
musician writing and recording with lo-fi
equipment and bits of paper spread all over
the floor. What's your process now?

It hasn't changed much, although my back and
knees ache if I lie on the floor too long! I've got
my studio here but I do like to start off a bit
lo-fi, maybe a four- or eight-track or perhaps
just acoustic guitar. I keep things simple because
if a song is sounding good in a rudimentary
form, you know that you're onto something.

Lyrically, you've always been adept at
tackling the personal and political without
being dogmatic. How are you approaching
lyric writing in 2021?

Well, there's certainly been a lot of rich material

— if I can't write anything out of the past two
years, I might as well give up! It's just a case of
commenting on things without being too overt.
I mean, nobody wants to be preached at, least
of all me. In such turbulent and strange times,
it's a responsibility of all artists — whether
filmmakers, writers, painters or musicians — to
deal with these issues but in a positive way.
There do appear to be some quite dark forces at
work at the moment, and what people want is
hope. That's what needs to be communicated

right now: hope, beauty and truth. @

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The The Dusk (Epic,
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£130

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and vinyl pressings were

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2000) £15

Johnson's most
underrated album fell
through the cracks during
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OOs. Tough but melodic, the urban rumble of
New York is in its DNA.

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(Cinéola, CINEOLA 7,
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With his soundtrack work,
most notably for his
brother Gerard, Johnson
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experimental origins. Although this does include
a new The The song, | Want 2 B U, heralding a
return to traditional songwriting.

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When they first emerged іп 1981, all frilly blousons and
Princess Dı coiffes, nobody could have predicted that, of all
the bands from the tuturist/new romantic era, Depeche
Mode excepted, would be the ones
eschewing the 80s revival circuit and getting the serious
critical plaudits 40 years later. But here they are, with Future
Past, arguably their best-received album ever, and the
general sense that they are far more Roxy Music than Таке
That. How did this happen? Reflex action:

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“ ongevity is the ultimate," says John
Taylor, who may be chilling in a
T-shirt but remains ineffably
elegant and suave. “When you're
young, you don't think about
longevity at all. That’s the beauty of
being a teenager, or in your twenties — it's all
about NOW, man! That's what makes it so
vital. Because whatever it is you're doing —
the way you're dressing, the way you wear
your hair, the way you're, if you're lucky,
making music — you're doing it like there's
no tomorrow. Then, as you get older and
embrace adulthood and responsibility — and
believe me, I tried to put that off as long as
possible, and I'm still playing catch-up — you
realise that, OK, if we play our cards right,
we can have a really good run."

Digressing onto the topic of The Rolling
Stones ("the ones we look to") and how they re
"packed with paradox and ambiguity in that
they re wild and crazy but at the same time
clever, dry and disciplined”, Taylor, now in a
12-step program, muses, “When I was making
music shit-faced, I realised how difficult it was."

The equally cheery and warm Simon Le
Bon adds, “We don’t reminisce very much, to
be honest. There seems to be a really decent
slice of NOW to be had. Making music
brings you very much into the present. It's all
about the moment. That natural attitude
informs how we live our lives and approach
our career. It's so easy to look back and think,
oh, wasn't it great then? But if you're not
aware of life now, you'll look back in five
years time and go, oh, wasn't it great
THEN? You need to honour the process of
life. Because it ain't forever."

Later, singer Le Bon (63 in October) and
bassist Taylor (61) will reflect a little on their
stellar 1981 breakthrough and subsequent
triumphs and travails — "I think people got
confused between artistry and marketing,”
offers the frontman — but first they re
justifiably keen to discuss the present. This
involves the knowingly titled Future Past,
their 15th studio album after over 40 years in
the game. It’s ridiculously good, as a band
who ve been a bit hit-and-miss at times land
on a sparkling, dynamic sound and a set of
killer songs just when they needed to prove
they still had it. The name collaborators help:
Erol Alkan produces the majority, with
Giorgio Moroder and Mark Ronson
contributing, while Blur’s Graham Coxon
joins as guitarist for this project. (Andy
Taylor, in case you were wondering, recently
joined Reef). Also appearing are Bowie
pianist Mike Garson, Lykke Li, Tove Lo and
Ivorian Doll. The band has taken bold risks,
and it’s paid off. RC
puts it to Le Bon that
it's a textbook example
of an established — one
hesitates to say
"veteran" — band
succeeding in retaining
its own style and aura
while evolving with
the modern flow.

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“That’s what we hoped to achieve", he
agrees. "We tried making an album that
didn’t sound like Duran Duran on Red
Carpet Massacre |2007, with Timbaland]
which got a resounding 'no, thank you' from
the fans. At that time, we had to rethink what
it was that makes us ‘us’, so this is an
important one. We never ignore the fans. We
pay attention." He qualifies this. "It's not so
much what your intention is; it's what you've
got inside that suddenly pours out. The
outpouring here, even within the first few
days, was extraordinary." Prompted that it
addresses themes both personal (his lyrics are
disarmingly candid) and global, he enthuses,
“Absolutely. I think I’ve re-evaluated life
significantly since the Paper Gods tour
[2015]. I thought about personal stuff, work
stuff... if you've got something that you care
about, if you've got an axe to grind, it really
helps. I think the main theme is: nothing's
perfect. Life, relationships. But it's all we've
got, so we might as well make the best of it."

Taylor concurs: "You're almost better off
being unspecific in your objectives, and just
letting it find its way. Yes, the album's a
reckoning, but it's almost unspoken between
us. Everybody who picks up a brush wants to
paint a masterpiece. So, of course, you bring
your best. For me it's gonna take a big chunk
out of my family life, so you want musical
investigation; you want your identity in there.

"Its about time, human kindness,
empathy, intimacy," Taylor says of his
bandmate’s latest set of lyrics. “I commend
Simon. To be prepared to talk about long-term
relationships in songs is brave, is vulnerable, is
taking your role as an artist seriously. And that
sense of fear plays into the crazy existential
situation we all find ourselves in. And if he’s
gonna step up and do that, and you уе got
players like Graham to plug into, then the least
I can do is play my fucking ass off.”

Coxon, it appears, re-energised the guys.
“We've had some fantastic guitarists before,”
says Le Bon. “Nile Rodgers. John Frusciante.
Andy Taylor. But Graham just
wants to play something that’s
completely new-sounding. Like,
on [the single] Anniversary —
you ain't never heard anything
like that before!"

It reminds me a bit of
Bowie's Scary Monsters, especially
Fashion, I say. Only a

millisecond later I realise I've

rudely and flatly contradicted the affable рор
star. Oh, wow,” he sighs. “Oh, WOW. Are
you comparing Future Past to Scary Monsters??"

I'm about to reach for my revolver, the
one with which I just shot myself in the foot,
when Le Bon continues. “I fucking /ove that!
One of my favourite Bowie albums. It's so
out-there and personal and completely
un-selfconscious; so unworried about
revealing the guts and the viscera, what goes
on inside. І am very, very happy that you
drew that comparison!"

We stay in the now of our Bowie-bonding
moment, discussing Mike Garson's playing on
the album finale, Falling. “Aladdin Sane was
the album that got me into David," beams Le
Bon. "That was my portal, and from there I
went backwards and forwards. Obviously, that
features Mike strongly. We'd agreed many
years ago to do something together. This time
it finally happened. We sent him this song,
saying something in the Lady Grinning Soul
territory might suit it. What came back is very
special. When we came to the sequence of the
album, I was 100 per cent adamant that no
song could follow that one. If anything did,
you couldn't pay attention. You need time to
let it resonate afterwards."

Lest we re making it sound like Future Past
is an impenetrable art-rock construct which
didn't come to party, it should be emphasised
that it funks like a badass. Invisible is a sci-fi
space groove, Give It All Up (with Tove Lo) is

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sad disco, All Of You dives into a dirty
rhythm. Taylor reckons that, for all the cool
names attached, it's "performance-oriented .
“As a bass player, I feel like I’m at war with
technology half the time,” he says. “Back
when samples and looping and cut-and-paste
started, Га play, like, three notes, and the
engineer would say, ОК, got it.’ Га be:
‘Really? And Га turn up the next day and,
wow, they had me sounding like Kanye
West's bass player! There was something cool
about that at first, but after a while I thought:
‘Wait, Гуе lost my thing. Where am I?’ So,
especially with Graham in the room and
being obnoxiously brilliant, I didn’t want to
take it easy: I wanted to bring some game.”
While уге ге all weary of music features
telling of recording sessions being interrupted
by the dread phrase “But then Covid
happened”, even for the impossibly
glamorous Duran Duran, reality intruded.
“Last March [2020], when we went into
lockdown, we thought we were almost
done,” Taylor explains, his transatlantic
accent purring. “In fact, we were at each
other’s throats, and the state we were in
trying to get it finished was not pleasant. So,
downing tools, closing up, going home, gave
us time to listen to the music for nine or 10
months. When we came back to it, in the
light of what all of us — not just the band, but
the planet — had been experiencing... well,
we asked ourselves whether these songs took

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on a new meaning. Even before lockdown, it
was still a fractious moment in time, wasn’t it?
In the UK the dust on Brexit hadn t settled,
and in America where I live, we'd had the
most divisive President ever known. So, a
song like Tonight United, working with
Giorgio Moroder, was a call for unity which
now would speak to the moment even more."

Yet while Future Past does crackle
convincingly of 2021, we must draw Duran
Duran back to their beginnings, if only to
respect that aforementioned longevity. They
perhaps seemed unlikely candidates to stick
around when they burst onto the scene,
around the same time as Adam & the Ants,
Soft Cell, The Human League and old friends/
rivals Spandau Ballet. Preening new romantic
peacocks at their dawn, they graduated to a
Fab Five in pastel designer suits, often on
yachts. The Birmingham boys’ self-titled 1981
debut album, gifting us Planet Earth and Girls
On Film, initiated a run of household-name
hits (Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio, Save A
Prayer, Is There Something I Should Knows,
The Reflex, Wild Boys, A View To A Kill) and
glossy MTV-seducing videos. There was
inevitably a period of plateau-finding, of splits
and refits and burn-out, but the albums kept
coming and the size of the shows held up.
Somehow, Duran creatively outlived
numerous more perceived-as-hip bands who
now play the nostalgia circuit. “One reason
we ге still together is because we've grown to
like each other,” suggests Le Bon. "It's a deep
relationship. It's a 40-year working
relationship, but there's a lot of respect there,
and a lot of love. A Jot of love."

"Im just glad that we're able to keep
switching gear while appreciating each other,"
Taylor reckons. “Take Roxy Music. I still wish
that Bryan [Ferry] and Phil [Manzanera] and
Andy [Mackay] would make music together.
There's nothing like it. 5o, when we came
back from our enforced lockdown absence, we
were like: fuck it, group hug! Because how
lucky are we? To still be here, still care about
each other. If we can make something that
people enjoy, why wouldn’t we keep doing it?”

In the early years, girls loved them (and
how) but elements of the press loathed them,
as if being heartthrobs automatically rendered
them talentless. Do they feel vindicated that
they get a little respect nowadays?

“I just don’t think that [bad press] matters,
I really don’t,” Taylor nods sagely. "We've put
songs out there that have impacted upon our
audience's lives. The reason we got into doing
what we do was because we lived by music.
Listen, music dictates my day. I get it. And the
gatekeepers, the curators? Critics like to feel
that it’s their role to introduce music to the
people. In the 80s, very rarely did that short-
circuit happen, where the art went directly to
the audience. Suddenly, Duran Duran, within
a year of Simon joining the band, had kids
screaming at us. We went from 2270 to hero in
12 months. So, whether it was John Peel or
Paul Morley or whoever, they had nothing to
do with it, and that threatened their job
security, ha-ha! And now, in current times,

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that's all been taken away — the internet gets
music to ears faster than ever. It's not like
when I saved my pennies to buy Virginia
Plain, walked home feeling like Gollum with
his Precious. I’m grateful that I came of age at
a time when music was so special. As a kid
erowing up whose Dad was in the war and
came home a little shell-shocked and
emotionally unavailable, I had to find myself
in, like, Rod Stewart and Freddie Mercury."
He peals with laughter. “Those were the men
I wanted to be!”

Le Bon shrugs nonchalantly when
pondering why Duran have outlived
expectations. “We didn’t think about the future
much. We were right in it, trying to do it there
and then. The idea of 10 years in the future was
unthinkable to us. Next week or next month
was as far ahead as we looked. And it worked
for us. Don’t look forward, you'll miss out.
And don’t look down — it’s a long way!”

How did he feel, as a young man, about
the press sniping? (Le Bon in particular, as
frontman, copped some flak). Was it water off
a duck’s back, or did it sting?

“We were just determined to make good
music, from the very start,” he replies. “Maybe
the early stuff wasn’t recognised as such, but
we believed it was. On those first two albums,
things like New Religion or The Chauffeur are
really good, proper grown-up music! It was
easy to pin a label on us, though, because of
the way we were marketed. And back in the
early 80s, in the music media, there weren't
many girls. So, for a band to make it massive,
somewhat on the interest of young females,
didn't do much to make us popular with the
guys writing reviews. It was almost like: Well,
they can't be a rez/ band because they care
about what they wear. But that whole not

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caring about what you wear thing had gone out
halfway through the 70s! Punk came along and
got rid of that. And when you re young and fit,
you can look good!”

That manifesto attributed to the band —
“а cross between Chic and the Sex Pistols" —
was a humdinger...

"Yeah, we were good at the soundbites
and sweeping statements," he says, laughing.
"Quotes like “we want to be the band to dance
to when they drop the bomb’ really got under
people’s skin. Anyway, you either believe the
bad press and give up, or you carry on and
learn to have faith in what you re doing.”

As dandies of fashion, were they
transforming themselves from working-class
lads to sophisticated scenesters, by means of
willpower? In some ways, Duran took the
airiness of Japan and put it in a gleaming
Warhol coke bottle. Was it a Gatsby-esque
philosophy, or simply a blast? Taylor is quick
to credit the band’s never knowingly
underdressed keyboard player here. “Nick
Rhodes was the single most style-conscious guy
Га ever met,” he recalls. “I was 13, he was 11,
I think. And he was already into chiffon and
hairspray. It was crazy. I was more of an oik,
really, but together we had safety in numbers.
So, style was always an important component
of anything we did. When punk rock came
along, I saw pictures of The Clash months
before I heard them. Because I’m in
Birmingham, and not quite club-going age.
And they ге wearing these Jackson Pollock
splattered shirts in 77. And I was: fuck, I love
that! The impact! So, I copied that shirt style
before Га even heard the band. If that's not a
slave to fashion, I don't know what is...

"So, he continues, “with Nick in the
eroup, it's like building cars — you can have

black, white or blue or red, but the songs all
have that candy-apple metallic sparkle to
them. His thinking is in the sounds. I mean,
if you asked the four of us to define Duran
Duran, we'd each use different words. Some
might intersect on the pie chart. Others
would make me or someone else go,
"Whaaaat? And yet, our objectives align.”

Back in the now, the objective is to make
Future Past power through the present. "The
most Duranesque album we ve done in a long
time," Taylor insists, before giving kudos to
the singer. Referring to the appearance of
British drill rapper Ivorian Doll on
Hammerhead, he says, "Simon 5 currently the
опу deep-diving into new music. He's
bringing that sensibility, and it’s exciting to
Nick and I, who are basically going, “Oh, yar,
we re just listening to classical music these
days..."

“IT’S ABOUT
TIME, EMPATHY,
INTIMACY”-—-JOHN

Le Bon laughs. “That track was in danger
of not making the album, of going into Nick’s
shallow grave. But I felt there was something
great we could do with it. Also, “Goodnight,
Shanghai/Bikinis aflame!’ is one of my
favourite phrases I’ve ever written. It’s about
this super-angel who's inside everybody, male
or female; who is right, but also ruthless like
conscience. It's something you can't escape
from, and I wanted to give that a voice. I've
got a radio show on Sirius XM now, called
Whooosh!, where I play new music and a lot
of alternative R&B. We approached Ivorian
Doll, and she was just fantastic." As Simon
detours to eulogise other collaborators —
Swedish dark-pop star Tove Lo and Japanese
all-girl punk band Chai — Taylor murmurs,
“She was brilliant. God bless her, she had no
real idea who we were. She was like: 'I think
my Mum liked you... or was it my Gran?
На ha һа.

Duran Duran аге inevitably ageing, but
only slightly, and with remarkable grace. The
crow 5 feet twinkle. “When you get to be a
guy of a certain age," considers Taylor,
"knowing what you can wear in public is
important. Happily, your wife or kids will say,
"Dad, NO, don't wear that shirt.’ Music-
making in the studio can be a little like that.
You re going: can we do that? Can we??”

Turns out they can. Future Past positively
fizzes. Asked what he's learned over four
decades, Le Bon says, "T ve learned how to
sing better," Questioned about regrets, Taylor
- whose 2012 autobiography, In The Pleasure
Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran, told of
his addiction issues — says, "None. You can t.
I'm a big believer in the whole butterfly wings
theory. ІҒГА taken one step differently,

I wouldn't be sitting in this chair right now

having this conversation with you, and trust

me, there's nowhere else I'd rather be."
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(EMI EMC 3372, LP, 1981)
While the doo-doo-doos and bah-bah-bahs on this platinum-
selling debut hit the pop motherlode, the provocative Godley
& Creme video for Girls On Film tickled different territories
and closing track Tel Aviv revealed they really had borrowed
an enigmatic trick or two from fellow Roxy fans Japan.

o (EMI EMC 3411, LP, 1982)
From the aspirational chirruping of Rio to the straining
melancholy of Save A Prayer, everything about the big-
league follow-up was a little needy, too keen to show
qualities they hadn't yet mastered (although The Chauffeur
parked with polish). Yet, without question, it is one of the
ега ѕ defining landmarks.

Seven And The Ra iger (EMI EMC 1654541, LP,
1983)

Every bands story needs a bonkers, fan-base-confusing
concept album, which teeters on the line between calamity
and genius. Duran duly delivered with this strange story of
the group's wrestles with success and ambition. “Restores
their danger and menace, reckoned Melody Maker.

rious (EMI DDN 331, LP, 1986)
Oh, its 1986, just get Nile Rodgers in, why don't you? Still,
sessions were awkward with Roger Taylor out and Andy
Taylor barely speaking to the "trio". Somehow, the sly
groove of the title track and the subtle swing of Skin Trade
elevated them from vertigo.

All You (Tape Modern DURANLP01, 21Р,
2011)

After years of erratic efforts, this Mark Ronson co-production,

with Kelis and Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic guesting,
cohered into the old mischievous energy. Supermodel
videos were back; David Lynch remixed. “A return to roots
for a band that's all implants," remarked Rolling Stone.
Plus, it had a track called The Man Who Stole A Leopard,
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charm, he expands: "Again, that sense of the
moment is so important. In the 12-step
programme we don t forget the past or shut the
door on it. I mean, I had a fucking great time
for a couple of years, y know? It was all
working. I had a brilliant time. And then it
stopped working. And it was rough for a while.

And then I found a new path. I can still make

music for a living, for instance. I just can't
drink or take dens Actually, I just found out
I'm diabetic, so I can't even eat chocolate
anymore! I think I can let that go, though..."

And with that, having earlier referenced the
Stones, gentleman John is onto the topic of
The Beatles, and the way they got to be
"sincere and stupid at the same time... an
ambiguity like that can run through a band."
He's enjoying the "instant gratification" of
performing in front of live crowds again. Le
Bon, meanwhile, fields my aside that not many
bands were beloved by both Princess Diana
and Andy Warhol.

“They'd have made such a great couple,
wouldn t they?" he says. "Look, it's not
something we courted. The connection with

the Warhol scene came about because we feel
that, within our musical ancestry is, very
definitely, The Velvet Underground.
Particularly Lou Reed. That arthouse thing is
in our blood. And Diana, as well as being a
posh girl living in a posh part of town, was also
just a girl who loved music. And of course, if
she's of that age, Duran Duran would
obviously be one of her favourites."

On the new album Le Bon sings, "We are
music lovers — this much we have learned."

"That's the heart of everything we do,” he
nods. “I get a physical thrill from it. An
emotional buzz and a physical thrill."

Now thats what I call music. Duran
Duran's now celebrates their past but is wolf-

hungry for the future. @

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NEW MOON ON MONDAY

DURAN DURAN SELECT UK DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES

81 EMI EMI 5137
81 EMI 12 EMI 5137
81 EMI EMI 5168
81 EMI 12 EMI 5168
81 EMI EMI 5206
81 EMI 12 EMI 5206
81 EMI EMI 5254
81 EMI 12 EMI 5254

82 EMI EMI 5295
82 ЕМІ 12 EMI 5295
82 ЕМІ EMI 5327
82 EMI 12 EMI 5295
82 ЕМІ EMI 5346
82 EMI 12 EMI 5346
83 ЕМІ EMI 5371
83 ЕМІ 12 EMI 5371
83 EMI EMI 5429
83 ЕМІ 12 ЕМІ 5429
84 EMI DURAN 1
84 EMI 12 DURAN 1

84 EMI 12 DURAN 1

84 ЕМІ DURAN 2

84 ЕМІ 12 DURAN

84 Parlophone DURAN 3
84 Parlophone 12 DURAN 3

85 Parlophone DURAN G 007
85 Parlophone DURAN 007
86 EMI DDN 45

86 EMI 12 DDN 45

86 EMI 12 DDNX 45

8/ EMI TRADE 1

87 ЕМІ TRADEX 1

8/ EMI 12 TRADE 1

87 EMI TOUR 1

8/ EMI TOURG 1

Sf EMI 12 TOUR 1

88 EMI YOUR 1
88 EMI 12 YOUR 1

88 EMI 12 YOURS 1
89 EMI DD 11

89 EMI DDP 11
89 EMI 12 DD 11
89 EMI 12 DDX 11
89 EMI CD DD 11
89 EMI DD 12

89 EMI DDA 12

89 EMI DDB 12
89 EMI DDC 12
89 EMI CDDD 12
89 EMI 10 DDA 12
89 EMI DD 13

89 EMI 12 DD 13

89 ЕМІ CDDD 13
90 Parlophone DD 14

90 Parlophone 12 DD 14

90 Parlophone 12 DDX 14
90 Parlophone CDDD 14
90 Parlophone DD 15

90 Parlophone 12 DD 15
90 Parlophone 12 DDS 15
90 Parlophone CDDD 15
93 Parlophone DD 16

93 Parlophone CDDDS 16
ОЗ Parlophone CDDDPD 16

93 Parlophone DD 17
93 Parlophone CDDDS 17

93 Parlophone CDDD 17

93 Parlophone 12 DD 18

Planet Earth/Late Bar (/", p/s, blue/white labels) .............................................. EE =:
Planet Earth (Night Version)/Planet Earth/Late Bar (12", o/s, blue/white labels) ................. £8
Careless Memories/Khanada ( 7”, р/5).......+++«««+++а+ааааавввваяввввававвававававававававвавававававвввавав ав oe
Careless Memories/Fame/Khanada (12” р/в) —————————— £12
Gris On: Fim Faster [han ШЕГИ 07" Di) soans aaa aa ai Oa a £3
Girls On Film(Night Version)/Girls On Film/Faster Than Light (12". D/8) ее — .. £10
My Own WayLike An Angel CC. DIS) кайрандар ы аала RD RR £3
My Own Way (Night Version)/Like An Angel/My Own Way (Short Version)

(12". Ws, blue or gold lettering ОГ БӨ ШӘ) анааан ao adm diii y wa aa arca Rt ic aic £8/£8
Hungry Like The Wolf/Careless Memories (Live Version) (7”, р/5)................................. ЁЗ
Hungry Like The Wolf (Night Version)/Careless Memories (Live Version) (12", 0/5)... ИННИИ:
Save А Prayer/Hold Back Тһе Rain (Remix) (7”, р/с) ..................................ааһ .. 1.11. ЕЗ
Save А Prayer/Hold Back The Rain (Remix) (12", р/с) .................................һеһка«««квһвһе....... DO
Rio/The Chauffeur (Blue Silver) (7”, р/с)...............................................к«к««кешжеее«жженешөшеш unns £3
Rio (Part 2)/Rio (Part 1)/The Chauffeur (Blue Silver) (12", р/с)............................---...».»..... £8
Is There Something | Should Know?/Faith In This Colour (7”, p/s) ..................................-. £2
Is There Something | Should Know?(Monster Mix)/Faith In This Colour (12", p/s) ................. £6
Union Of The Snake/Secret Oktober (77, OS) „ананан вна a a a SUEDE Ru dan i
Union Of The Snake (The Monkey Mix)/Union Of The Snake (7” Mix)/Secret Oktober ( 12" р/в)...
New Moon Оп Monday/Tiger Tiger (7”, р/с) ................. «нннеее нинин нннеее P
New Moon On Monday(Remix)/Tiger Tiger/New Moon On Monday (12". o/s,

Ва nor ied Bn Dag OP ale с SESE EAA IG rS RR E ERGO eter iene RR £6
New Moon On Monday(Remix)/Tiger Tiger/New Moon On Monday (12”, p/s, B2

riot lieted on bags but ori label) aaa aaa mcr accio ca arai aa £8
The Reflex (7” Version)/Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Live) (/”, p/s)............... =
The Reflex (Dance Mix)/The Reflex/Make Me Smile (Come Up Апа See Me) (Live) (12” p/s). £
The Wild Boys/(l'm Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement (1984) (7”, р/с) ...................-.-. =
The Wild Boys(Wilder Than Wild Boys)(Extended Mix)/The Wild Boys/(l'm

Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement (1984) (12", р/).....................................һ«һеа«а«а«аһ. £6
A View To A Kill/A View To A Kill (That Fatal Kiss) (/”, gf p/s, white vinyl) ......................... £10
A View To A Kill/A View To A Kill (That Fatal Kiss) (/”, die-cut p/S) ......................-. eee eee £4
Notorious/Winter Marches On (/", gloss p/S) .................. eee reor rere rere nnn HH ЁЗ
Notorious (Extended Mix)/ Notorious(45 Mix)/Winter Marches On (12", р/с). йс £5
Notorious (Latin Rascals Mix)/Notorious(45 Mix)/Winter Marches On (12", BS — айан . £10
Skin Trade (Radio Cut)/We Need You (7”, р/с)............................««.«««««вквв«ввввкввкввкекеневвш өш... Ж
Skin Trade (Radio Cut)/We Need You (/", poster sleeve) .................-- eee eee een nuum ~
Skin Trade (Larry Levan Stretch Mix)/Skin Trade (Album Version)/We Need You(/", p/s)..
Meet El Presidente/Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (7”, p/s).............. e eene rere nnn “ы
Meet El Presidente/Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (7", g/f p/S) .........................-- eee eene nnn £2
Meet El Presidente(Remix)/ Meet El Presidente(Meet EI Beat)/Meet El

Presidente(Remix Edit)/Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (12” р/с) ...................................«.һ.. £4
| Don't Want Your Love/l Don't Want Your Love (Album Version) (/”, р/5)......................... £2
| Don't Want Your Love (Big Mix)/I Don't Want Your Love (Album Version)/l Don’t

Want Your Love (T^ MIN) (127, DS) aaa a ا ف جج‎ £4
| Don't Want Your Love (Big Мїх)Л Don't Want Your Love (7” Mix)/l Don't Want

Your Love (Album Version) (12", one-sided, etched, poly bag, insert) .......................- sse £10
All She Wants Is/ I Believe - All І Need To Know (Medley) (7”, р/с) .................................. £2
All She Wants Is/ | Believe - All | Need To Know (Medley) (7”, poster sleeve) ...............-.-- £6
All She Wants Is (Euro Dub Mix)/ All She Wants Is (45 Mix)/l Believe – All | Need

To Know (Medley) (£7, BES seenenaxcasuszumanasanrkzanesaanaanisas aranea ааникенавянанинанеянякакакаанннинананняна £6
All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)/All She Wants Is (US 45 Міх) Believe - All Е

Need To Know (Medley) CT", OS) алнан ED NM VV E дайранын BS
All She Wants Is(45 Mix)/Skin Trade (Parisian Mix)/I Believe — All | Мееа То Кпоуу E
(Medley) (3" CD, p/s, plastic display CASE) a a aaa £6
Do You Believe In Shame?/The Krush Brothers LSD Edit (Т, 2 FE НИ наннан анна RR £3

Do You Believe In Shame?/The Krush Brothers LSD Edit (7”, p/s, wallet sleeve, postcard, 1/3) . £10
Do You Believe In Shame?/God (London)/This Is How А Road Gets Made/

Palomino (EdID (7 DS; posar; 253) sco ынаар CO ET prac штаты ШЫНЫ iu ДӘ
Do You Believe In Shame?/Drug (It's Just A State Of Mind) (Original Version) dal

Ds eai aars Ж О asanncoriiiokxotdnndkmatpeeiaokdnd ooo 0
Do You Believe In Shame?/T he Krush Brothers LSD Edit/Notoriows (Live)/God

(London)/This Is How A Road Gets Made (3” CD, p/s, plastic display case) ...................... £10
Do You Believe In Shame?/The Krush Brothers LSD Edit/Notorious (Live) (10", p/s) ................. £5
Burning The Ground/Decadance (/",p/s) Saa aaa a a aaa a aa aaa ЁБ

Burning The Ground/Decadance/Decadance (Extended Mix) (1 2”, 0/5, look out for | more
common mispressing, with matrix 12 DDDJX B-1-1-1 and 3:29 version, not Extended)....... £6/£6

Burning The Ground/Decadance/Decadance (Extended Mix) (CD, jewel case) ................... £6
Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over)/Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking
OVEN (TNE Story MPO (I7, DIS] asasxisspsukikunuMNARENNENCENEEENGDDENNNNER NYC E MOON н нинин инини наннан ай

Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over) (T he Power Mix)/Violence Of Summer
(Love's Taking Over)(Album Version)/Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over)

СП Stoy МЕК CLE. OS) сна ыны аршаны сы End Da Eu Б
Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over) (T he Rock Mix)/(T he Dub: Suurids Of A

Powerful MBO Throb (127, WS) aus uaa ae ooo NIRE o a EH RHE RENE ERR RE NEHERE REM EK EE MER RE EE . £6
Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over)/T hrob/Violence Of Summer (Love’s

Taking Over)(The Power Cut)/(The Story Mix) (CD, лиан TOS a NRI ER TINI RR RENE £6
SEMOUS/TO Bad А209 HU. IBI secu E RE EE REUNERE FERE MERKEN RUE R ERE a NE REER MERE eee £4
Serious/Yo Bad Azzizi/Water Babies (12", off eu E —————— £10
Serious/Yo Bad Azzizi/Water Babies (12", one-sided, etched, poly bag, poster) ................. £20
Serious/Yo Bad Azzizi/Water Babies (CD, jewel case) ......................................................... £5
Ordinary World (Single Version)/My Antarctica (/", p/s) ......... ——————————— PRERSRENE: Б АНЕ
Ordinary World (Single Version)/Save A Prayer/Skin Trade/My Antarctica

(CD, 1/2, eight-panel digipak, with space for Part Ту/О).........................-.. err nnne ere
Ordinary World (Single Version)/The Reflex/Hungry Like The Wolf/ Girls On Film (CD,

2/2, jewel case; w/foreshortgnex 1П5еП)..... асана наа зачазаззазазаав ананда кажанан MVC Ed ——— £3
Come Undone (Edit)/Ordinary World (Acoustic Version) (7”, a ки анине саннан £20

Come Undone (Edit)/Ordinary World (Acoustic Version)/Come Undone (FGI Phumpin’ —
Come Undone (La Fin De Siecle) (CD, 1/2, eight-panel digipak, with space for Part Two) ......£5
Come Undone (Album Version)/Rio/ls There Something І Should Know?/

A View To A Kill (CD, 2/2, jewel case, w/foreshortened insert) ........................- ee eene eene £5
Too Much Information (Ben Chapman 12" Instrumental Dub)/Drowning Man (D:Ream Mix)/
Drowning Man (D:Ream Ambient Mix)/Too Much Information (Deptford Dub) (12", p/s) ......... £5

93 Parlophone CDDDS 18

93 Parlophone CDDD 18

95 Parlophone DD 20
95 Parlophone CDDDS 20

95 Parlophone CDDD 20
95 Parlophone 12 DD 19
95 Parlophone CDDDS 19
95 Parlophone CDDD 19

97 Virgin VSCDT 1639

Too Much Information (Album Version)/Drowning Man (D:Ream 12")/Too Much
Information (Ben Chapman 12" Mix)/Too Much Information (Deptford Dub)

(СО, 72, ZGO CISIGAK, WIN Space TOP POSEE TWO) аьан аканин наан ceca kac occae ce £5
Too Much Information (Album Version Edit)/Come Undone 12” Міх – Comin' Together)/
Come Undone (Live)/Notorious (Live) (CD, 2/2, jewel case, J-card insert) .................. анны ЕЗ
Perfect Day/Femme Fatale (Alternative Mix) (/", р/с) ............................................. m— мі!
Perfect Day/Love Voodoo(Remix)/Needle And The Damage Done/911 Is A Joke

(Alternative Version) ) (CD, 1/2, four-panel digipak, with space for Part TWO) ........................£5
Perfect Day/Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile)/Perfect Day(Acoustic Version)
Femme Fatale (Alternative Mix) (CD, 2/2, J-card insert) ..........................11...1 а қ ə кə əə, £5
White Lines (Don't Do It) (70s Club Mix)//White Lines (Don't Do It)/White Lines (Don't

Do It) (Oakland Fonk Mix)/White Lines (Don't Do It)(Junior Vasquez Mix) (12", p/s)......... £8
White Lines (Don't Do It)/None Of The Above (Drizabone Mix)/Ordinary World(Acoustic
Version)/Save A Prayer (CD, 1/2, four-panel digipak, with space for Part Two) ..... TRORA £8

White Lines (Don't Do It)/White Lines (Don't Do It) (70s Club Mix)/White Lines (Don't
Do It) (Oakland Fonk Mix)/ White Lines (Don't Do It)(Junior Vasquez Mix) (CD, 2/2, J-card) ...£6
Out Of My Mind (Album Version)/Silva Halo/Sinner Or Saint/Out Of My Mind

(Elecirie Remix) (CD, JEWEL CASG) aero £4
97 Virgin VSCDX 1639 Out Of My Mind (Perfecto Radio Edit)/Out Of My Mind (Perfecto Mix)/Out Of My Mind

(Perfecto Instrumental)/Out Of My Mind (Perfecto Dub 1) (CD, jewel case)....................... £5
99 EMI 12 ELEC 2000 Electric Barbarella (Tee's Club Mix)/Electric Barbarella (Electric Sex Mix)/Girls On Film

(Salt Tank: Mix) асот С ИОРАН ЦООР £5
99 EMI CDELEC 2000 Electric Barbarella (Radio Edit)/Girls On Film (Tin Tin Out Radio Mix)/Electric Barbarella

(Tee's Radio Mix) (CD, р/с, jewel Case) ......................................................ааа«аһ. a eee TLE £4
00 Hollywood/Edel 0108845 HWR Someone Else Not Me (Radio Edit)/(Album Version)/Starting To Remember

(CDE. CO eard, (WO CABS) a a a ae a ق‎ a a E
OO Hollywood/Edel 0108846 HWR Someone Else Not Me (Radio Edit)/(Album Version) (CD, p/s, wallet) ................................. £4

O4 Epic EPC 6/5353 1
04 Epic EPC 6753532

ОБ Epic EPC 675632 1

05 Epic EPC 675652 2

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Album Version)/(Alex G Cosmic Mix) (CD, p/s, J-card, jewel case). .Ғ2
(Reach Up For Тһе) Sunrise (Album Version)/(Jason Nevins Radio Mix)/(Ferry Corsten Dub
Mix)/ Know It All/(Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Video) (Enhanced CD, p/s, J-card, jewel case)... £2
What Happens Tomorrow/(Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Eric Prydz mix) (CD, p/s, wallet,
Dining dalspo еа со S MB ocn atnterdtiam o NEL
What Happens Tomorrow/Silent Icy River/What Happens Tomorrow (Harry Peat Mix) /
(Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Eric Prydz Mix) (СО, p/s, J-card, jewel case, timing misprint on rear sleeve) .. £5

O/ Epic 8869/ 191302 Falling Down/(Reach Up For The) Sunrise (Live) (CD, p/s, J-card, jewel case).......................£2
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EMI EMI 3372 DURAN DURAN (LP, printed inner) ................ Win OMEN TO EMI Ede

5 ЕМІ ЕМІ 3411 RIO (LP, textured sleeve, printed іппег)............................4.«««-«ы«ы наннан —— £12
83 EMI EMC 1654541 SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER (LP, printed Inner). iiec error rica ra vii ea £8
84 Parlophone DD 2 ARENA (LP, ӨЛ, printed inner, Spp 12 "x12" БООКЕ) sirsenis £15
86 EMI DDN 331 NOTORIOUS (LP, printed іппегу.....„.„ «еккеннен: ————r —: £10
88 ЕМІ DDB 33 BIG THING (LP, م‎ РЕТ £12
88 Parlophone 0777 7 89834 22 BIG THING (CD, bonus track) ................ ———— aS —€————————S тт Ғ12
90 Parlophone PCSD 112 LIBERTY (LP, printed inner) ...... ———————————————— —————— — OO
93 Parlophone DDB 34 DURAN DURAN (THE WEDDING ALBUM) КР, printed inner) ——— ÓH— £150
93 Parlophone CDDDB 35 DURAN DURAN (THE WEDDING ALBUM) (2CD, digipak, two booklets) ........................... £30
95 Parlophone DDB 36 THANK YOU (ГР, ЕТ DOSIBE) «asa Ga нана нана ы ына анына қы арыла быт £100
95 Parlophone DDBX 36 THANK YOU (2CD, booklet) ........... — T —€— T —€— Мы ... £10
39 Rollywood/Edel 0107512 HWR POP TRASH (ODD) aaa aaa aa a aa a ———— کاک‎ £6
04 Epic EPC 517920 f ASTRONAUT (Dual Disc CD- DVD)... —— EET ——' ——— ана £15
O/ Epic 88697 0/3622 RED CARPET MASSACRE (CD, booklet) .................. ——— HEC —XEEERRPRPRENAR ae a
O9 EMI DDLIVEX 82 HAMMERSMITH 82! (CD/DVD: БООКЕ) sx ai naa Ob eO TOC D FR ER £15
11 Tape Modem DURANLP O1 ALL YOU NEED IS NOW (2LP) uiisasesuxscaéntiku a VERE VUE SI VR KÉE RE SE ананан шна Vu nan a dud веваннна £150
14 Vinyl Factory VF 102 LIVE 2011 (A DIAMOND IN THE MIND) (21Р, g/f, 'diamond dust < screen printed' sleeve) ... £80
15 Warners 9362 49251 5 КАРЕН GODS LP ДЕНІ ТАБИТ енини ананна étendu aa DM Da D ни жиликти аканин £30
15 Vinyl Factory VF 212 PAPER GODS (3LP/12", custom box, white vinyl, certificate signed by group/Alex Israel,

SD EN] sea es EC E nO EE RC ERE EMO EA OE EET E EOS £250
18 Warners 9362 49078 8 BUDOKAN (LP; RSD 2018) ascen Oe a НЫ €—€— Mà шыннан ЙӘ
19 Parlophone DDRSD 2019 AS THE LIGHTS GO DOWN (LIVE OAKLAND COLISEUM '84) (

21Р, pink, blue, three-sided, g/f, printed inners, RSD 2019) ............................ peer £40
21 BMG 4050538693669 FUTURE PAST (LP, translucent jo ——————— —À— N кнши к £20
21 BMGAUDOSSSOSSOB2 FUTURE PAST (LP. WII) sceau RE ERA ERR ERE SKR E EERER EXER ER A a MR ERR KE ERR d EY aa psa £20
SELECTED COMPILATIONS
89 EMI DDX 10 DEGADE (LE ОШИП sss inp RUD C a Ra UE ERE RR ara E RR ita o TS
98 ЕМІ 243 496239 2 7 GREATEST (GD) <р ы ыы ыы EHE Se ee ee reece £15
OS EMI T2134 9625696 93 GREATEST (MD) aS GS O O SES DESEO REN RC Rl £30

шелер OTHER WORLDWIDE RELEASES, PROMOS & CURIOS
EMI YOUR 1 Big Thing/l Don't Want Your Love (UK, I WONO) Жет т eee өте OO

i EMI DDB 33 BIG THING (UK box, promo: CD, cassette, booklet, badge) ..............-......... e ee e eere ener nnn: £40
ОО Parlophone 12 DDJ 14 Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over)/Yo Bad Azzizi (UK, 12", promo w/l, stamped as ОО) ....£6
90 Parlophone CD DD 15 Serious/Yo Bad Azzizi/All Along The Water(UK, CD single, third track plays All Along The

Water instead of Water Babies) ................................................. hn ша h nennen nena еее кесене ене nnn an £15
91 EMI TOCP 6707 8 NITE ROMANTICS (THE 12" COLLECTION) (Japan, 2CD, fatbox, obi, collection of four EPs,

containing rare mixes) ....... ————————— —P P ТИТЕ ... £50
ОЗ Capitol DPRO 79786 THE TOUR SAMPLER (US, CD, digipak, 16- track best- of to plug LS ДОШ) тектен mE 2° 1
ОЗ Capitol DPRO 79256 Too Much Information - The Churban Mixes (Trance 7” Mix)/(4:30am Twirl Mix)/

(Club 2 Mix)/(Unplugged Mix) (US, promo CD, stickered jewel case) .............................. £30
UF Сарп CDP 72458 35676 2 5 MEDAZZALAND (US, CD; БООКЕ) .Leieeevsvews suae vus vu EE EUER EVE E5
98 EMICDINDD 001 GREATEST (UK, box set, VHS video, Interview CD, 8pp booklet, photo) ————— БО
09 Erika ER 200840 RED CARPET MASSACRE (US, 2LP, red, numbered, bonus track, 12pp booklet) ......... .. £120
11 Tape Modern 073151701 / Girl Panic!(Album Version)/Girl Panic!(David Lynch Remix) (US, 7”, RSD 2011,

ed. FLITE etl DIB, ООА: оннан анан ннан еван цан Ru MERE hr наил кж ee
11 Tape Modern no cat no Leave A Light On (ОК, CDR promo, wallet with press sticker). eae XA E VR mwa £20
15 Warners no cat no Pressure ӨП (UK; CD promo. card Маер ucxsassaziusEuna EFE AD aaa aS aaa £30
13 Warners no cat no What Are The Chances? (Radio Edit) (UK, CD promo, Card wallet)................................. £50
16 Warners no cat no Last Night In The City (KANT Mix)/ (TOKIMONSTA Remix)/(

Louis Vivet Corrected Remix)(US, CDR, jewel case) ..................-- eee ee eee eror . £40
20 Cleopatra CLO 1666 1979 DEMOS PART 2: Dreaming Of Your Cars/Love Story/X Disco/To The Shore

Es LA UIE, B/S) сымақ OEE акынар ийке ааа карсЫ R EN EAM RE EE £20

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WHITE LINES (DON'T DO ІТ) OAKLAND ҒОМ

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Record Collector 75

PONG

Three seminal blues albums were released within a few months of each other in 1966

by John Mayall, Paul Butterfield, and Junior Wells, all focused on the Chicago

blues sound. Each one came from a radically different point of the cultural compass,
and, as Alan Harper suggests, all three lett behind more questions than answers...

76 Record Collector

y the summer of 1966, the
British blues boom was running
out of steam. Bands and fans
were moving on to pastures new,
inspired by the burgeoning
creativity of The Beatles, the
irresistible swagger of the Stones and the
diverse talents of other nascent rock acts
from the Small Faces to The Who. In mid-
May, Capitol Records released Per Sounds.
А few weeks later Columbia put out
Blonde On Blonde.

Always behind the curve, British blues
was about to bring out an album that would
prove to be its most enduring monument,
while simultaneously disappearing up an
artistic cul de sac. Its release followed close
behind two other albums, both by blues
eroups from Chicago — both influential,
both in their different ways exploring the
possibilities of the art form, and both, as it
turned out, venturing up their own
particular blind alleys.

The Beano album, or more properly
Blues Breakers by John Mayall with Eric
Clapton (Decca LK 4804), embodied the
English blues sensibility. Released in July, it
was well-read, moderately adventurous, and
illuminated by flashes of brilliance. It
featured a studious performance of Robert
Johnson's Delta blues classic Ramblin’ On
My Mind, a Mersey-beat version of Mose
Allison's Parchman Farm, and an enjoyably
noisy attempt at It Ain't Right by Chicago
harmonica ace Little Walter. Тһе vocals were
of variable quality and rendered in not-very-
convincing American accents. The
songwriters were credited, so you knew
whose records to look for at Dobell's on
Saturday. À yawn-inducing two-minute
drum solo in Жага I Say was allowed to
stay in, presumably because everyone else
was too polite to object.

There was more to this album than
careful carbon copies of American 45s,
thanks to the improbable quality of the
21-year-old Eric Clapton's musicianship.
Given equal billing with his bandleader, he
was granted plenty of space to perform on
almost every track, the best of which, by a
long way, were those included solely to
showcase the young man's talents as a
guitarist: the Otis Rush cover All Your
Love and, especially, the instrumental
gems Steppin’ Out
and Hideaway. These
mark the first flickers
of that dawning
realisation crucial to the |
development of blues
rock: if your singer can't

sing, or at least not like
Muddy Waters or BB

Breaking the mould
(opposite page l-r): Eric
Clapton, Michael
Bloomfield, Junior
Wells. (Right) 'The
Beano Album'

BLUES a aE

JOHN MAYALL IE
кола ERIC CLAPTON

King, turn the spotlight on the guitarist.
Clapton's take on the Rush guitar
classic was a straightforward, if slightly
ponderous, homage to one of his heroes,
with few departures from the script. His
arrangement of Steppin’ Out showed real
verve, as he took the piano, saxophone and
guitar parts of the original Memphis Slim
tune and made it sound like it was written
for solo guitar. On Hideaway he started
with a virtuoso vignette by Freddie King
and built upwards, adding 24 bars, a raft of
new ideas, and somehow contriving - in a
solo instrumental - to take three guitar
solos. Those of a trainspotterish bent
enthused about the tone he achieved with
his appropriately Anglo-American
combination of Gibson guitar and Marshall
amplifier. A picture on the sleeve's back

cover showed Clapton, all Mod hairdo and

TITANS ПЕ
CHICAGO
BLUES

ENJOYED A
RENAISSANCE

manly sideburns, tuning the Les Paul as a
cigarette smouldered in its machine heads.
Even years later, burn marks seemed to scar
most of the second-hand guitars for sale in
Denmark Street.

Over in the US, meanwhile, Muddy
Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and other titans of
the Chicago blues were enjoying a career
renaissance. None of them had scored a
solid hit single since the 50s, but just as in
the UK, young white Americans had
discovered the old blues, and they were led
there by white musicians — among them a
prodigious young harmonica player from a
prosperous white neighbourhood in
Chicago itself.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra
EKL 294), the first album from the
eponymous collective, came out in late
1965. It offered a more realistic Chicago
blues experience than the Bluesbreakers’
English effort, with a rhythm section

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comprising Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold
from Howlin’ Wolfs band. It, too, featured
a white virtuoso on guitar, in the shape of
22-year-old Mike Bloomfield. Butterfield's
harmonica was raucous and confident, as
Chicago blues standards competed for
groovespace with a smattering of lively
originals. The opening track was the
swaggering Born In Chicago. There were no
slow blues, perhaps because they knew
enough to know their limitations. Two
tracks were improvised instrumentals
showcasing the guitars and harmonica,
which hinted at what the band might be like
to see in a live setting.

Bloomfield's guitar playing seemed more
solidly grounded in the Chicago blues than
Clapton's. It was easy to imagine him
lurking in South Side clubs, absorbing
lessons from great sidemen like Louis Myers
and Jimmy Rogers, rather than sitting at
home playing along to Freddie King 45s.
But in spite of Bloomfield's undoubted
abilities, the record wasn't a prototype rock
guitar album in the way that the
Bluesbreakers’ was — the bandleader was
a harp player.

At a time when Greenwich Village coffee
houses routinely paid pastiche blues
musicians like John Hammond Jr and Dave
van Ronk more than they paid actual blues
artists like Skip James and Big Joe Williams,
it was perhaps inevitable that the album's
sleeve notes, by Pete Welding, tied
themselves in knots over the troubling issue
of "authenticity": Butterfield played in
Chicago's blues clubs regularly, "in the
company of some of the city's better young
negro bluesmen”. By concentrating оп
modern Chicago blues and ignoring older,
"country blues" styles, Butterfield had
" neatly bystepped the problems that have
prevented other young blues interpreters
from attaining a comparable degree of
fluency, ease, conviction and utter
authority." Apparently the privately
educated Butterfield, the son of a Hyde Park
lawyer, could claim “а long intimacy with
the culture that produced the music". The
music itself ^was much less bound up in a
maze of socio-cultural factors... because
these factors are not operative in the
contemporary blues to the same degree, or
іп the same way, as in the older blues”.

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to say. Butterfield was a
good singer and a
terrific harmonica
player. Bloomfield was
fantastic on guitar. An
arch little note on the
cover advised playing
the record at the
highest possible
volume, long before
such exhortations could
be found on virtually
every rock album.

Butterfield’s band
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was different from Мауа!Г in
lots of ways, the main one
being that the Americans
learned their blues in Chicago's
clubs, while the Englishmen -
apart from occasional gigs in
support of touring American
acts - had learned by listening
to records. It showed in the
overall quality of the two
albums. There were noticeable
areas of weakness in the
English effort, and a number of
duff songs, but no such
shortcomings with the
Butterfield album. It was solid.
They were good.

“Much more so than
Mayall, the Butterfield band
was a real crucial band in the
white blues boom, probably
because they were actually a
good band," Bruce Iglauer told
me at his Alligator Records
HQ. "Although everybody I knew owned
that Mayall album."

But although their album was an
excellent, faithful, and lively reproduction of
an urban blues style that had reached its
apotheosis 10 years before, I felt that
Butterfield and his band were just a little too
respectful. Their record had little to offer
that you couldn t get from a Chess Records

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compilation of Muddy Waters’ or Little
Walter's singles. The only thing new about it
was that the band’s frontmen were white,
whereas in Eric Clapton, John Mayall’s
Bluesbreakers knew they had found a
musician capable of something genuinely
special, whose instrumental virtuosity looked

to the future, even if their
album 's repertoire did not.
While Butterfield and
his band were recording
their album in New York,
Junior Wells was doing
the same in Chicago. “I
thought, 'Here's a
beautiful sound, and it's
getting wasted," Bob
Koester told me in the
Jazz Record Mart on
Lincoln Avenue. He had
long used the record store
to fund his label,
Delmark, recording jazz
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Tavern on Chicago’s South Side, he had
decided to take a punt with an urban blues
album, Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark
DS-9612). “Pete Welding in Down Beat
gave it two stars, said it was a terrible
record: it wasn't noisy enough, in effect, it
should have had another guitar,” he
recalled. “Well, that wasn’t what was going
on at the club. The Buddy Guy trio plus
Junior is what it really was: Buddy had the
trio at Гһегева 5, and Junior was the
separately hired feature artist.”

Amos Wells Blakemore Jr arrived in
Chicago as a boy and made his first records
in his own name in 1953, aged just 18.
Elmore James and Muddy Waters served as
session men. He learned to play harp at the
feet of Sonny Boy Williamson, and fronted
The Aces, one of the finest of all Chicago
blues bands. By the mid-60s he was at the
forefront of the city's blues scene, a veteran
of the Muddy Waters band and the resident
headliner at Theresa's. He was born to
perform: a brooding and almost sinister
presence during a slow blues, and an

eccentrically electrifying dancer, he sang and

played as if totally possessed. When Junior
Wells was up onstage, nothing else in the

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room could hold your attention.

When it came to musicianship, the band
on Hoodoo Man Blues made the
Bluesbreakers sound like gifted amateurs
and even put Butterfield’s people in the
shade. But if Mayall and Butterfield had set
out to make Chicago blues records, Junior
Wells must have set out to make something
else, because his album didn’t sound
anything like theirs.

The opening track, Snatch It Back And
Hold It, reminded me of Brand New Bag —
even before Wells’ sardonic reference in the
lyrics to James Brown's huge summer hit.
The album's sound engineering had a
spacious, architectural quality, giving parts of
the session the feel of modern jazz. Гһе music
had a precision unusual in a blues record.
Silences between phrases were like white
space. It was spare, and it was funky. The
next song, Ships On The Ocean, a beautiful,
slow, 12-bar blues — lyrically opaque, to be
sure, but full of feeling — dispelled any doubts
about what sort of album it was. Throughout,
Jack Myers' bass was jazzy and melodic. On
the drums, a flamboyant Billy Warren
seemed to have been plucked from some
razor-sharp 40s dance orchestra, but he was
just as adept at shepherding a song along with
no more than a
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version of Willie Cobbs You Don't Love
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on At Fillmore East. What I previously
assumed to be a quirky Californian
rendition by the Grateful Dead of Good
Morning Schoolgirl turned out to be a note-
for-note lift from Hoodoo Man Blues. Other
standards like Yonder Wall and Hey Lawdy
Mama were delivered with an equally
powerful twist of individuality. Wells
grunts, moans and sighs were potent with
sexual suggestion. Every track on the album
was about Wells, his harmonica, and his
unique and soulful vocals.

Hoodoo Man Blues came out in
November 1965, a few weeks after the first
Butterfield album, while Mayall’s Beano LP
followed in mid-’66. Butterfield sang about
being Born In Chicago as if it were a badge
of honour. Sung by a rich white boy the
lyrics sounded idiotic, but it was hardly
surprising if he wanted to buff up his
streetwise credentials, if only to trump the
claims of the irritating British invaders who
were making such a noise about their
“discovery of the blues.

But, of course, his “credentials” also
trumped those of Wells, Guy, and the other
musicians on Hoodoo Man Blues, because
they weren't from Chicago either: they'd
moved up from Louisiana, Arkansas, and
Mississippi, like the blues itself. If it was a
question of “authenticity”, then this was
surely it. The most grown-up and least self-
conscious of the three albums, Hoodoo Man
Blues was created by musicians who were not
only steeped in the traditions of their art,
but also prepared to play around with it, and
willing to look forward as well as back.
Crucially, they were not trying to sound like
anybody else.

Unlike the Butterfield and Mayall
albums, Delmark’s first foray into modern,
electric, Chicago blues was not an
immediate success. “Hoodoo Man Blues was
premature. For some reason it took the
whiteys a little bit longer to get into black
Chicago blues than white,” said Bob
Koester, acerbically. “Interest in Chicago
electric blues was profoundly increased upon
the appearance of the Paul Butterfield band
at Newport, behind Bob Dylan, when

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The same week that the Beano album
came out, in July 1966, Clapton left the
Bluesbreakers, and the blues, to form Cream.
In August the second Butterfield album was
released: East West was very different from
their first, with covers of songs by Nat
Adderley and Allen Toussaint, and long,
exploratory instrumentals inspired by John
Coltrane. As if acknowledging that they had
arrived at a dead end with the first album,
Butterfield's band was leaving Chicago and
the blues behind and, like Clapton and
Cream, and countless other blues, pop, and
folk bands on both sides of the Atlantic,
moving on to bigger things.

For Junior Wells and Buddy Guy the
way ahead was not so clear. Their interest in
soul and funk, and their melding of these
new sounds with the old blues they loved,
helped create a superb album that would
come to be acknowledged as a classic. While
the old blues might have fallen from favour
with black audiences, thanks to the likes of
Mayall and Butterfield there was a new
young white audience ready to take its place
— a new young white audience who didn't
know anything about soul and funk. To
please them, you had to play the old blues in
the old way, like the white blues bands did.

The Bluesbreakers, meanwhile, without
their star soloist, kept the faith. Their follow-
up to the Beano album featured a new
guitarist, as John Mayall explained
apologetically in his liner notes: “The
personnel of the Bluesbreakers having
changed since our last LP..." he began. That
glorious perfect participle, like some
clunking schoolboy translation of Tacitus,
laid bare the essential propriety of the
English approach to the blues. But Mayall
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Essential Chicago blues albums
The music we regard as classic Chicago blues, by
the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, was
all released originally on 795 and 45s. In 1960
Chess released Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill
(Chess 1444). The white blues market was non-
existent, but by getting their urban blues star to
perform Big Bill Broonzy songs, the Chess
brothers hoped to net a few folkies. But
according їо Bob Koester, this was "the first time
that anything that could be described as Chicago
blues was recorded for LP release”. In the same
year, the same band played the Newport Jazz
Festival where, instead of selections from the
Broonzy songbook, they did a knockout South
Side set of straight-ahead Chicago blues. Muddy
Waters At Newport 1960 (Chess 1449) was
critically acclaimed and hugely influential.

Then came Folk Festival Of The Blues (Chess
9113) in 1963. This was a live album recorded
in Chicago by Chess іп DJ Big Bill Hill’s Сора
Cabana nightclub, with a couple of studio tracks
dubbed in. With ап unbeatable lineup that
included Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Sonny
Boy Williamson, not to mention searing guitar
work by Buddy Guy, it was soon discovered by
white fans, among them, famously, Jeff Beck.

It was re-released in subsequent years under
various titles and on several labels.

In 1965 Pete Welding's Testament label
released its Modern Chicago Blues compilation:
21 songs by eight different Chicago artists,
including Johnny Young and Big Walter Horton
(Testament 2203). The following year Prestige
came out with albums by Chicago artists
Homesick James (Prestige 7388), Billy Boy
Arnold (7389) and Otis Spann (7719).

Delmark’s Hoodoo Man Blues inspired
Vanguard to produce a three-album set that soon
became legendary: Chicago/The Blues/Today!
(Vanguard 79216 8) was released in 1966,
featuring Junior Wells, James Cotton, Otis Rush,
JB Hutto, Otis Spann, and many more.

MUDDY WATERS
SINGS

“BIG BILL”

THE IONGI OF “BIG BILL” BROONZY

FOLK FESTIVAL,

BLUES

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Remember Lucky stars, the hit from 19/8 by Dean Friedman?
No? That's okay, you were probably too busy listening to
Costello and Buzzcocks to enjoy it. But there's more to Friedman
than MOR schlock, including impacting on bands from Ben
Folds Five to Half Man Half Biscuit and forays into virtual
reality and cannabis distribution, as Jason Barnard finds out

t first glance, Dean Friedman’s

contribution to pop culture is one of the

corniest duets of all time: Lucky Stars,

a No 3 hit from 1978, the height of new

wave, when angular guitars and jagged

choruses reigned, not smooth MOR. But
a closer inspection reveals a far more complex and
subversive songwriter, typified by political new LP
American Lullaby, at odds with the cheesy image
often associated with the New Jersey tunesmith.

From his debut 1977 US hit single, Ariel,
onwards, his songs have chronicled all shades of life,
yet he’s been largely dismissed as a guilty pleasure,

a nasal purveyor of quasi-acerbic schmaltz on a par
with Barry Manilow, Randy Edelman and Rupert
Holmes, sort of Randy Newman/Donald Fagen lite.

Friedman was raised in a musical family. His
mother was an actress in Hollywood and starred on
Broadway while his father started out as an illustrator
on comic strips, before going on to direct ТУ
commercials. A teen of the late 60s and early 70s,
forged in a home of show tunes and radio hits heard
from his transistor radio, he was influenced by
singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon,
Elton John and the aforementioned Newman. To
him, these were artists who painted pictures with
their words and music of a cinematic quality.

Friedman, a youthful 66, discusses his motives
and methods. “Still to this day, that’s my goal,” he
says, talking via Zoom from his home studio in
Peekskill, New York. “It’s to invite the listener into
the song and make them part of it. I paint that
picture with words and music to describe with a lot
of detail what's going on, but leaving it up to the
imagination so that the listener adapts it to their
own experience.

Ariel is a case in point. Tied to an infectious
hook and set in suburban New Jersey, it's a simple
tale of an ordinary teenager consumed with
adolescent angst. Depicting a teen smitten with
a young Jewish girl going on their first date and
getting high, it vividly captures the era. Dense with
references to his home town of Paramus, it refers to

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the Dairy Queen, New York City radio station
WBAI, and late-night movies on local ТУ station
Channel Two. The lyrics are deceptively revealing:
“T picked her up in my new VW van/She wore а
peasant blouse with nothing underneath." Friedman
recalls, “I played that record for two teenage girls
who lived on my block. And as soon as they heard
it, they looked up and they accused me of reading
their diaries. That convinced me that I had struck
a chord, that I was telling a story that would be
familiar to what a lot of people have experienced."

However, it was Woman Of Mine, from his
eponymous debut LP, that became his debut UK
chart entry. Written when he was 16, it was an
emotive ballad in the style of James Taylor and Elton
John that reflected the other side of teenage love.

" Lyrically, it's not my most sophisticated song, but
emotionally it hits the mark," Friedman muses.

"It evokes those feelings that you have when you
discover your first love and she leaves."

Also from his debut LP was Song For My
Mother, light years ahead of Woman Of Mine in
its lyrical sophistication. A heart-rending, harrowing
tale of a mother's depression and suicide told from
a child's perspective, it cuts as deep as Neil Young's
The Needle And The Damage Done, with which it
shares a similar acoustic backing.

As for Dean's first major UK hit, Lucky Stars, his
label, Lifesong, fought to keep it off his second LP,
"Well, Well, " Said The Rocking Chair, as they saw
him as a solo acoustic singer-songwriter. A piano-
based tongue-in-cheek duet with Denise Marsa, it
shows a couple bickering back and forth — “Did you
see Lisa?’ “Yes, I saw Lisa.’ “Is that why you re angry?
1 wasn’t angry” — before the issue is resolved, the
pair thanking their titular lucky stars that they're “not
as smart as we d like to think we are". To detractors,
Lucky Stars is the saccharine twin of British-born
American singer Rupert Holmes’ 1979 novelty
single, Escape (The Piña Colada Song), a comedic
tale of a couple attempting to cheat on each other via
a newspaper s personal ads. Yet Lucky Stars, like
Holmes' next single, Him, is remarkable for its raw

'Tache on delivery:
Friedman pictured
for his self-titled
1977 debut LP

DEAN FRIEDMAN

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truthfulness: what couple hasn't experienced
jealousy in this way?

Lucky Stars brought Friedman onto 7op
Of The Pops in the UK and into the national
consciousness. It was in stark contrast to the
then-current new wave noise, to Buzzcocks and
The Boomtown Rats. In fact, Friedman recalls
Rats keyboardist Johnny Fingers
approaching him for a favour. “Не said,
‘Look, I feel self-conscious, but I
promised my little sister I'd ask you for
your autograph, ” һе says, laughing at
the memory. “So, I said to him, ‘Listen,
I'll give you my autograph if you give
me yours.

As with Rupert Holmes, Lucky Stars
proved to be his last substantial UK
chart entry (both Holmes’ Him and
Friedman's Lydia, their respective
follow-ups to their big hits, reached No 31).
Nevertheless, it left a lasting impression on
the public. “The truth of the matter is,
when I first came on the scene, I was
described as a hip Paul Simon and Lucky
Stars altered that perception," he admits.
“Апа I never got a chance to change
that conversation, even though year
after year Гуе been making music and
writing all kinds of songs."

The piano power ballad Lydia,
entered the UK Top 40 in 1978.

A string-laden track to file alongside
Eric Carmen and Elton, it's on the

right side of sentimental due to

its undercurrent of melancholia.
Friedman says: “People ask, “Was there
a Lydia?’ There was but that wasn't her name.
I used her roommate's name in a failed
attempt to protect the not-so-innocent. It was
my young wayward popstar days. Playing that
live, I always try to connect with those feelings
that might have been irresponsible but were
genuinely sincere."

These singles also brought “Well, Well,”
Said The Rocking Chair into the album charts,
treating listeners to a surprising range of styles
and topical issues. Notable was Shopping Bag
Ladies with its unexpected refrain, “Don’t pity
me, don't pity me/You beautiful bastard boy,”
exploring the underbelly of US life with pathos
and wit. “I had to take the bus into New York
every day to get to school for college,”
Friedman explains, “and in the process,

I walked through the Port Authority bus
terminal to get the subway downtown, and
there was a population of older homeless
women who pretty much resided in the bus
station. And they were very proud, very defiant.
They didn’t want people feeling sorry for them,
they had no patience for people. On one
occasion, іп my naiveté, I waved and said hello
to one of them and wished her a good day.

She just looked at me and gave me the finger.

I respected that desire to be left alone and
ignored it. Shopping Bag Ladies was my effort
to paint that picture and, in some way, honour
those women.”

Despite having had hits around the world
and selling a million units, Lifesong insisted
Friedman share recording costs, resulting in

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lucky stars

a drop in
income and
the songwriter
ultimately giving
up his record
deal. This was
compounded by
switches of sound and
lyrical subjects across
his two LPs. For every
Lydia, there would be
S& M, a comic tale of
sadomasochism.
“Every label executive
was perplexed as to
how to categorise
те,” he says. “What section [of record stores]
would I be in? They couldn t figure it out.”
His 1982 single, McDonald's Girl,
rekindled the theme of teenage yearning so
successfully depicted in Ariel. And with
a melody no less compelling, the track seemed
destined to hit the charts until it was banned by
the BBC for featuring a commercial trade
name. And unlike Ray Davies, who could
swap Coca-Cola for “cherry cola” on Lola,
McDonald's was integral to Friedman 5 song. It
could not be so easily replaced, with its repeated
refrain of, "I am in love with the McDonald's
girl” and teen obsession with “the angel in
a polyester uniform”. Just a decade later,
Barenaked Ladies recorded a live version that
helped to establish the Canadian band. But at
the time, the failed single led to Friedman
being dropped by CBS and a stalled career.
The following year he was restricted
to releasing single The Lakelands on an
independent label. Inspired by Lake
Windermere in the Lake District, it
inadvertently became one of his biggest-selling
records after being included as the final track
on the Irish folk songs compilation, Green
Velvet, much to his (wry) delight. “А generation

DEAN FRIEDMAN

^They couldn't
figure me out":
— Friedman at the
— keys in 1977

of kids grew up listening to these Irish songs,
plus one by this Jewish kid from New Jersey,
on their parents’ record players."

Friedman then moved onto soundtrack
work, notably for five seasons of the UK TV
series Boon, for which he wrote country music
for the end credits — he would fly back and
forth from his US home to the Midlands where
the show was produced. He then composed the
soundtrack to cult 1990 horror film, / Bought
A Vampire Motorcycle, made by the same cast
and crew as Boon, for which he performed the
track She Runs On Blood, Not Gasoline.

Around this time, Friedman became
involved with music technology and early
virtual reality. In 1986, he wrote and published
what became the first consumer guide for
machinic musical equipment, The Complete
Guide To Synthesizers, Sequencers And Drum
Machines. Publishing as the New York School
of Synthesis, he followed it up with a three-
part video series, Intro To Synthesis. This series
became the go-to instructional video for
synthesists everywhere and led to new artists
sampling his work. Philadelphia hip-hop artist
Evan Souza aka Darko The Super's new album
Im Tired And Its A Lot Of Bologna is based on
Rumpled Romeo, Friedman's third LP from
1981, one filled with teenage love songs
including McDonald's Girl.

In 1986, Friedman saw a demo of
a powerful VR programme that put people
inside a video game using a video camera — no
helmet required. Three years later, he used the
software to design and program the very first
virtual reality video game, Fat-A-Bug, for
Nickelodeon's 7otalPanic kids TV show. This
expanded into other fields, as he explains.

“I was designing state-of-the-art, cutting edge
virtual reality game environments for
television, theme parks, children's museums
and science museums all over the world. It was
about two decades ahead of its time.” >

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By the late 90s, US alternative trio Ben
Folds Five's single Kate had paid homage to
Ariel and the US teen group The Blenders’
cover of McDonald's Girl topped the
Norwegian charts. Meanwhile, Friedman
released his first new LP in two decades, Songs
For Grownups. Tracks like Saturday Fathers
vividly charted the impact of divorce from a
father and child's perspective. That plus an ever-
loyal fan base gave him the impetus to continue
recording. By 2001, he was the first solo artist to
crowdfund an LP, Гле Treehouse Journals.

"TI ve been crowdfunding ever since, and
for any indie musician, it's a really important
model for establishing a relationship with your
listeners and being able to have their support
independently to make music and pursue what
you do," he says.

In 2005, controversially, his UK tour was
almost cancelled. His LP at the time, Sguirrels
In The Attic, included a song called Doint,
Doint, It's Just A Little Joint, and in
recognition he announced that his tour
sponsor would distribute packets of cannabis
seeds to the first 10 fans to purchase CDs at
each of the gigs. Within 24 hours of the press
release all but one of the 15 venues booked
emailed or called to cancel if he followed
through with his plan to distribute seeds to
concert-goers. The situation was only
resolved after the singer-songwriter promised
not to distribute the seeds within 50 yards of
the venue premises, despite it being legal to
possess them.

"I said to the venues, it seems ironic to
me that you're threatening to cancel my tour
if we re giving out these seeds, considering
that you make the bulk of your income by
selling alcohol to your patrons and then
sending them home drunk in their cars,”
Friedman chides. "Ironically, again, the
venues that protested the most got the most
publicity and I sold the most tickets."

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He exacted sweet revenge on wittier-than-
thou satirical indie band Half Man Half
Biscuit, who had referenced him and Shopping
Bag Ladies in their song The Bastard Son Of
Dean Friedman on their 1987 LP Back Again
In The DHSS. His riposte, A Baker’s Tale, from
2010s Submarine Races, is the hitherto untold
story of HMHB frontman Nigel Blackwell’s
dubious, unnatural origins in a bakehouse.

“I performed my song at one of their gigs
and, at the end of the show, I joined Nigel
and the band onstage for a rousing rendition
of The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman, which
I have to acknowledge was а little surreal,” he
says, still stunned. “There was a whole room
of people singing at the top of their lungs.

I learnt that Nigel was the proud owner of my
second album. It occurred to me that he grew
up as a kid listening to that record. Нез the
funniest and most articulate lyricist in punk.
So, I like to think, in my most inebriated state,
that maybe he is, a little bit, the bastard son

of Dean Friedman.”

And so to the present, and Friedman’s new
LP, American Lullaby. It's his most ambitious
and poetic work to date; inspired by, and
reflecting on, events in the US and around the
world over the last six years. “My head was
blown,” he admits. “I was confused and
befuddled. I was incredulous at everything that
was going on and that had happened.”

The title track is a moving account of
America’s original sins and 400-year love affair
with guns. It retells the events of 1609 when
Hendrick Hudson, a Dutch captain of a sailing
ship called Half Moon, who was searching for the
rumoured Northeast Passage to Asia but sailed
up what is now known as the Hudson River.
“On his voyage," tells Friedman, “he and his
crew raided camps of the indigenous populations
with guns and cannons. And the point simply
being is that it helped set the stage for how we
got here. All lullabies in every culture share

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and yearning.
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has overshadowed
Friedman’s quest to
be taken seriously.

McDonald's Girl
(1982)

Banned by the
BBC due to its
commercial
reference, the

Five of Friedman’s best

Friedman's debut single and sole
US hit. An infectious melody tied to
a true-to-life New Jersey teenage
tale, packed with adolescent angst

A Top 5 UK single, this gently
humorous squabble between
a jealous wife and husband

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something very curious and common, which is
that they speak of very terrible deeds and things
that will potentially happen to innocent children.
But they catch those warnings in soothing and
comforting tones so as not to scare them.”

The Russians Are Coming!, meanwhile, is a
true account of the Senate Intelligence
Committee Report on Russian Interference in
the 2016 US Election. “I was trying to find a
way to explain it to myself and to anyone else
that would care to listen because I didn’t
understand it,” offers Friedman. “It was only by
trying to write about it that I could somehow
process it a little better.”

For all the negativity and opprobrium, at
the core of American Lullaby is hope and
optimism. Halfway Normal World yearns for
release from perpetual lockdown, normality and
communion with family and friends. Closing
track On A Summer's Night resolves the
matter, with its final bars finding Friedman
reassuring the listener, “All my worries and my
fears seem to suddenly disappear."

From Ariel to American Lullaby,
Friedman's songs capture the many facets of the
human experience. They also reflect the
absurdity of it all. It's this humour that has led
to some dismissing him as schmaltzy, even silly;
listen more closely, however, and you will hear
something far more profound. These are
pictures that can affect us all.

“I was determined to leaven dire warnings
with a good measure of humour and an ample
dose of silliness, because that's a crucial
ingredient to survive the world reality," he says
of his relevant, recent work. “If we continue to
care about our families, friends and communities
with a hopeful heart, we can surmount and
survive all these looming disasters.” ®

American Lullaby zs out now. Friedman
embarks on а 40-date UK tour starting in
April 2022. Visit www.deanfriedman.com

single's failure led to Friedman
being dropped by Epic. But it also
encouraged him back due to
Barenaked Ladies' early 90s cover,
and The Blenders taking it to

No 1 in Norway in 1998,
culminating in McDonald's
licensing it for a national TV/radio
campaign in 2011.

A Baker's Tale (2010)

Friedman's affectionate riposte to
Half Man Half Biscuit's The Bastard
Son Of Dean Friedman.

American Lullaby (2021)
Friedman's most ambitious song
yet, exposing America's 400-year
love affair with guns.

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for their next move, they wanted to
road. If only they knew how eventful Ко ipf tour in
years was going to be. It was a period that took in near-deatl
experiences, emergency operations and sunbathing with Thom
Yorke. Somehow, New Adventures In Hi-Fi emerged. Through new
interviews with Michael Stipe, Mike adi ana Bertis Downs
and more, hears c creation.

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“We all lived either in the same house or very close to each other. And we would hang out all day and write songs" (this page, І-г): R.E.M. іп 1984,
around the time of second album Reckoning; in 1986, promoting their fourth LP, Lifes Rich Pageant

ichael Stipe admits he
approaches the spirit of R.E.M.
with a different perspective to
everyone else. Where others
might think of a jangly guitar,
or a raspy yearning vocal, or
Losing My Religion, or Man On The Moon,
or Everybody Hurts, or It's The End Of The
World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),
those aren't the things that go through

Stipe's head. For him, what comes to mind is

more of an attitude. When the former
frontman reflects on his old band, it's an
audacity and a desire to challenge themselves
that he thinks of, a commitment to not
writing the same song over and over. That's
the band that Stipe remembers.

Those traits were cast into the group's 10th
album New Adventures In Hi-Fi, which is
celebrated with a 25th anniversary reissue this
month. Released in September 1996, it melded
peppy glam-rock anthems, experimental
balladry, jagged Americana and breezy piano-
pop that, when you looked under the bonnet,
wasn t actually so breezy. It was initiated
during soundchecks on their 1995 Monster
Tour, a spell on the road that was by turns
triumphant and tumultuous, and then
completed in the studio in Seattle.

It captured everything that was great about
them. The quartet from Athens, Georgia could
be artistic, they could be daring; they could
write melodies you could sing along to after
your first listen or melodies that would only
worm their way in after 10 listens; they could
write serious songs and they could write silly
songs. New Adventures In Hi-Fi covered it all
(come on, Zither is a silly song).

“It was somewhat based on Nebraska by
Bruce Springsteen, more introspective, darker
landscapes,” explains Michael Stipe, over
Zoom from his home in Athens. “The more
kind of pop stuff we'd done before it allowed
us to really experiment."

Purely by coincidence, on the evening we
speak it is exactly 10 years to the day that
R.E.M. called time on their career with a
short statement posted on their website: "To
our fans and friends: As R.E.M., and as
lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have

decided to call it a day as a band. We walk
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away with a great sense of
eratitude, of finality, and of
astonishment at all we have
accomplished. To anyone
who ever felt touched by our
music, our deepest thanks
for listening." Looking back,
Stipe remembers it as a sad
moment. "It was very
bittersweet and not an easy
decision for us to arrive at,”
he states. "But, you know,

І can speak on behalf of
everyone: we made the

right choice, and we did

the right thing."

Fifteen years before that,
New Adventures... marked
the end of their glorious first
phase. It was the final record
they made with drummer Bill
Berry, who departed a year
after its release. Stipe, Berry,
guitarist Peter Buck and
bassist Mike Mills had spent
much of the previous decade
and a half as arty-minded,
college-rock heroes building
up a diehard fanbase but
never really looking like they
had the necessary bombast to
become massive. But 1987's
Document and 1988's Green,
the latter their first major label release after
splitting with Miles Copeland's I.R.S., showed
they could mix indie sensibilities with muscular
anthems. Green was a big crossover success but
that was nothing compared to what came next:
'9I's Out Of Time and the following year's
Automatic For The People retooled their sound
with country-tinged melancholia and sparse,
haunting pop. It made R.E.M. superstars.

Working your way through their

discography now, each of their
records seems a little like it's
trying to swerve out of the way
of the previous one. They
changed things up again for
1994's Monster, full of fuzzy
guitar-pop and a glam-inspired
playfulness. Arriving a year
later, New Adventures... felt like
a combination of sonic
elements from across their
whole career. By that point,
they had already created the
blueprint for alternative rock,
showing groups such as
Nirvana and Radiohead that
artistic integrity didn’t need to
mean never playing a venue
bigger than the Town And
Country Club. They were
outsiders who allowed
themselves to think big and
showed that DIY ethics could
exist on the grandest of stages.
R.E.M. made alternative rock a
mainstream concern.

“Гуе never thought of
R.E.M. as a rock band’,”
begins Stipe. “And I’m going to
put that in parentheses. I never
thought of myself as a rock
person. I always felt like I was a
punk rocker who was
immersing myself into some post-new wave
something, really just presenting ourselves as
who we were, helping to radically spearhead
and alter what pop music was going to become
from where it was. With Monster, we were
having to go on tour and we needed material
that wasn't from Automatic For The People and
Out Of Time, we needed big, loud songs, so we
wrote a rock’ record but it’s kind of an ironic,
distanced version of rock music. New

"We needed big, loud songs, so we wrote а
rock record, but it's kind of an ironic,
distanced version" - Michael Stipe

Photos: Bart Everly / REM Athens Ltd

Adventures. .. might be as close as we come to
being a four-piece rock band and I say that
with no regret. It really was Bill and Mike and
Peter performing at their very best as a three-
piece, and then me doing what I do on top of
that, creating a fearful force."

Despite being an active participant in each
of the 25th anniversary campaigns, which
began with an expanded version of Green in
2013 and has been followed with similar
quarter-century reissues for Out Of Time,
Automatic For The People and Monster, Stipe
says he’s not someone who naturally looks
back. “I despise nostalgia and I’m a naturally
sentimental person, so of course I abhor
sentimentality,” he says, a comic dryness in his
bass-y, slightly croaky voice. He often speaks as
fast-paced as some of his vocal deliveries. “But
that said, I am the guy that penned Everybody
Hurts, to put it in its place.”

Examining his band’s music from 25 years
distance has been an eye-opener for the singer,
who feels as if he’s able to look over his life’s
work with a fresh pair of eyes. “Ultimately,
every record we made,” he says, “we did the
very best we could, we never presented B-level
work. At the time when we released stuff, it
was in my opinion and in my mind the
absolute best thing we could possibly create at
that moment. Of course, I can look back and
blow giant holes through it, but I don’t do that
as much these days."

Ahead of New Adventures...’s re-release,
recently he sat down, turned off the lights and
listened to it from start to finish, away from his
phone, ГУ off, full concentration. He was
shocked at the sequencing of it, and also
surprised at how much the record referenced
the American West. At the time, Stipe had
moved from New York to Los Angeles and it’s
only now, looking back, that he realises how
much the relocation had seeped into his words.

“It really ingrained itself into my
exploration as a voyeur,” he avers. “I’m an
observer, I look at things, I take notes and I
write little narratives based on that. I absorb it
all and then it comes out of songs. It’s the end

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of the 20th century and the city is literally
consuming itself in some absurd level of pop
culture and I’m right smack dab in the middle
of it and loving it. I really enjoy observing the
work from a great distance.”

It was Peter Buck who came up with the
idea that R.E.M. should use the soundchecks
on the Monster Tour to write material for a new
record. If it was fruitful, they could use the
shows to road-test the songs. “We always let
Peter be the engine that drives the train in
terms of direction,” explains Mike Mills,
speaking over Zoom from his home in Athens,
Georgia. “He was the guitar player, which
tends to dominate the sound, so he probably
had the best perspective of what a band ought
to do. He wrote the bulk of the songs and he
was really good at determining the direction.
We were certainly happy to follow his lead on
most of that stuff.”

As anyone who has ever had the
misfortune to experience a soundcheck — the
endless thump of a kick drum, a roadie
counting for 30 minutes and never getting
past the number two, the violent crackle of a
sound engineer unplugging the wrong cable —
can attest, it makes perfect sense that Buck
wanted to introduce some creativity to the
process. It was also a way, says Mills, of
providing some purpose on the tour besides
just playing the shows (you might think that
performing celebratory shows to adoring
crowds of thousands around the globe every
night would provide enough kicks, but
R.E.M. wanted to go further).

“It was a way to give the tour another
dimension besides show/sleep/travel/sleep/
show," says Mills. One rule was introduced:
no songs about actual touring. “We didn't
want to make a record about being on tour.
We didn't want to write songs about how
lonely the road is or how bad the food is or
anything like that. So, we made a record that
was literally informed by being on tour."

Instigating a new album on the road
made perfect sense to Bertis Downs, the
eroup s long-term manager and advisor. He'd

Monochrome sets (this page, clockwise
from top left): R.E.M. in 1987; Berry,
Stipe, Mills and Buck in 1988

seen how the tedium had got to them during
a year-long spell on the road to support Green
in 1989 and thought this was a good tactic of
avoiding a repeat. "There's a certain
repetitiveness to that, so something that
would mix it up and be a bit of a challenge
seemed like a good idea. It was fun to hear
some of these songs as they developed,” he
says. Early versions of tracks got their working
titles from crew members’ middle names,

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A previously unseen photo of R.E.M.
on tour in 1995: "It got us back

to what it used to be, working on the
songs together in the same place

as though we lived together"

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Downs recalls. One track donned Warren
became the pulsing rocker So Fast, So Numb,
whilst Louis morphed into the melodic chug
of Bittersweet Me.

As the first leg of the tour got off to a flying
start in Australia in January 1995, writing,
together every day reminded Mills of the
eroup s early days as students at the University
Of Georgia in 1980. "Back in the 80s, we all
lived either in the same house or very close to
each other," the bassist recollects, “апа we
would hang out all day and write songs. As life
goes on, you become different people, different
adults, and you don't hang out 24 hours a day
like you used to, so you tend to write songs a
little more separately. This got us back to what
it used to be, working on the songs together in
the same place as though we lived together.
There was a bit of a full circle."

While his bandmates were working on new
material in soundcheck, Michael Stipe was in a
different headspace. Every now and then, he
would stand on the side of the stage and see if
any vocal ideas would attach themselves to the
skeletal pieces of music he was hearing or jump
up and join them if a lyric popped into his
head but, for the most part, the singer was
mentally preparing for the huge show that lay
ahead that evening. "I was so focused on
performing," he recalls. "Being frontman
required an immense amount of psychic
energy, to carry the crowd, to lift them, pull
them up and out when they were not
completely present."

Stipe would spend his days visiting art
museums and trying not to talk, saving his
vocal cords for the main event. His part in
helping to shape these songs would come later.
"I was okay with that,” he says. “I was like,
'OK, you do your thing over there and ГЇЇ do
my thing over here, and ІСІ come together and
that will create R.E.M.”

A little distance was required for this
approach. "Those guys understood it, it was
nothing personal," he says. "It was not
reflective of our relationship in any way at all.
But I just had to have my own kind of
headspace to do what I did."

Despite that, by the time the European leg
of the tour began at the Velódromo De Anoeta
in San Sebastian, Spain on 15 February 1995,
they did have one new song to unveil. The
urgent stomp of Departure had come together
the day before, its lyric written by Stipe during
an epic 26-hour trip from Singapore to the
Basque country. "It's one of the only songs for
me that is truly autobiographical realness,”
Stipe reveals. “It’s expressing immense anger
through grief. It was written about River
Phoenix and wanting to share an experience
with him that I couldn't share with him
because he had died. I was at that point in
grieving where I was just angry. I was upset
that I couldn't call him on the phone. I had
basically written the lyrics on the back of my
plane ticket."

The band had three albums’ worth of
un-toured material to fit into these shows but
Mills says they always loved to get in brand

new songs, too. "Peter and I always enjoyed

hearing an artist do something that we'd never
heard, that was always thrilling for us," the
bassist explains. "I mean, we played the hits as
well. But we always thought it was another
dimension for a certain type of fan to play
previously unreleased music."

As the tour continued through Spain,
France and Italy, R.E.M. were firing on all
cylinders. Stipe remembers feeling like he was
at an "audacious creative peak" and everyone
was excited about the approaching outdoor
leg, their biggest shows to date. "That first

month, we were riding high," says Bertis

'HE'D DO A PETE
TOWNSHEND-STYLE KICK"

Director Peter Care recalls
Stipe and Co’s video heyday

English video director Peter Care
directed the videos for some of
R.E.M.'s biggest hits, including the
promotional clips for Radio Song, Man
Оп The Moon, What's The Frequency
Kenneth, Drive and more. He also
directed Road Movie, the concert film
that captured the conclusion of the
Monster Tour. He recollects meeting
the band and the trick to capturing
them in concert.

"The first time I met R.E.M. in the
flesh was on the set of Radio Song,
but before that it was a while talking
on the phone with Michael about ideas.
[ think the band made all the
decisions together as a democracy but
Michael was the one who made the phone
calls to directors. It was a great
experience so they asked me back to do
a few more. It was the beginning of a
trust and faith in each other, the
kind of collaboration that you always
dream about as a music video director.

"After having done four or five
music videos, they asked me to do the
concert film. They were on tour so
there wasn't a lot of communication
with any member of the band. I put
together a crew to come to Atlanta,
people who I thought were fans of

R.E.M.

Downs. "There was tons of excitement:
Milton Keynes, Slane Castle — it was all laid
out for the whole year. And then," he says
ominously, "it got interesting..."

The first thing that comes into Mike Mills’
mind when he thinks back to the evening of 1
March, 1995, is watching Bill Berry going
down on one knee, holding his head. R.E.M.
were halfway through a show at Patinoire de
Malley, an arena in Lausanne, Switzerland, and
the drummer was making his way over to play
bass on the Monster track Tongue when he

suddenly collapsed.

R.E.M., people that could operate
cameras that weren't just guns-for-
hire. We shot for two nights out of
the three. Тһе way we did the movie,
the idea was that each song would have
a different feel to it, so one song

would be hard cuts, another one would

only have three shots, two cuts,
another song would have dissolves. It
was a very unconventional way of
covering a concert.

“Тһе projections were an integral
part of the whole thing: we wanted
them to feel like filming a fifth
member of the band - well, seventh,
actually, because they had a couple of
guest musicians with them. The
director of photography Lance Acord
volunteered to go up in the lighting
rig with a handheld camera and strap
himself in. He shot for one whole
night just hanging on with a strap
around his waist, looking down on the
band. He got some amazing stuff.

"The most important thing in
capturing R.E.M. live was getting the
balance between Michael being the
focus and not losing sense of the
other members of the band. Which
wasn't easy, because Peter Buck liked
standing in the shadows. Every now and
again, maybe twice in a song, he would
come out into the light for a little
bit, do a kind of Pete Townshend-style
kick, and he'd go back into the
Shadows again. With Michael's
performance, you just follow him with
four or five cameras and you're done."

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“We stopped the show to see how things
were," remembers Mills, "but we certainly
didn't think it was immediately life-
threatening." With Berry unable to continue,
they completed the show with Joey Peters,
drummer with support band Grant Lee
Buffalo, behind the kit. “Не did an admirable
job for a guy who wasn't in the band. Then, of
course, the next day we found out it was a little
more than we thought and everything else fell
away except Bill's health."

Doctors had diagnosed Berry with a
ruptured brain aneurysm. “We put a good spin
on it publicly, but the truth is Bill almost died
and he almost died more than once,” recalls
Stipe. "It was absolutely terrifying and it was
truly horrific. He came through, it's truly
miraculous. He also happened to have an
aneurysm less than five kilometres from the
best hospital in the world to have surgery for
aneurysms; he was very lucky."

“One lesson we took away from it," adds
Bertis Downs, "is that if you re ever going to
have a brain aneurysm, have it in Switzerland.
The best doctors in the world were there. We
had brilliant brain surgeons and we still keep
up with them to this day."

Once it became clear that Berry was going
to survive, it became a question of where to

reside while he recuperated.
The rest of their European
tour cancelled, the band
resolved that everyone would
stay in Switzerland with Berry
until he was well enough to
travel and began looking into
finding a location where they
could all hang out together as
they watched their friend get
better. They waited for Berry
to decide if the tour would
continue or be scrapped
completely. “If Bill didn't
want to do it, or was unable to
do it, then we wouldn't do іг,”
says Mills.

“ВШ just wanted to get to
the point where he could
perform again," says Stipe.
“We were, of course,
supportive of that but a bit
terrified because it was really drastic brain
surgery that he had. He looked like the
Elephant Man for a while. It was really very
serious surgery.

The doctors signed Berry off to play drums
again and the prospect of continuing the tour,
Stipe says, was a nice thing to hold up as part

“It was really drastic brain surgery that
he [Bill] had. He looked like the
Elephant Man for a while" - Michael Stipe

of his physical and mental
therapy. "We gave it the
necessary amount of time that
it needed," Stipe remembers,
"and then added a month."

The tour restarted on 15
May at the Shoreline
Amphitheatre at Mountain
View, an outdoor arena in the
зап Francisco Вау Area.
"Welcome to the Aneursym
95 tour,” Stipe told the crowd
from the stage, but there were
to be no medical emergencies
that night and Berry got
through his first show back
without any hiccups.

“I feel a big sigh of relief,”
Berry told МТУ after the gig.
"It hit me, You got through
it, my head doesn’t hurt.”
"Im pretty sure at the end of
the show, Bill walked out from behind the
drum kit and we all hugged each other onstage
and I think I burst into tears," Stipe recalls. "I
cried like a baby. I was so relieved that Bill
made it through an entire show and he was
absolutely fine. He was going to be okay."
They were back on track.

Returning to Switzerland in early July to
headline Out In The Green festival, the
doctors who saved Berry's life were invited
backstage to meet the band. "That was a great
homecoming for them," Stipe notes. “Bill
didn't really remember them because he was
out most of the time, but the rest of us

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Live promoter Bob Gold on
R.E.M.'s 90s pomp

on a stadium footing. Worldwide there was a huge demand.

Did it feel like a big step up from the Green tour in '89?
Yeah, it was, but it wasn't a surprise because record sales
had shown that this band was a worldwide success now. Prior
to that, the band had toured on every album. We started with
Dingwalls and Тһе Marquee in London playing to 200-оаа
people and each time they toured, it would be that much

Bob Gold (pictured on the left of the
photo with Bertis Downs) was R.E.M.'s

live promoter throughout their career. Б | Ё bigger - we started with small clubs, then we went into
He recounts the band's early shows, the leap to playing ballrooms, then theatres, then arenas and that's when the
stadiums and explains why it's much easier to cancel a band decided to give it a rest for a few years. But from
tour than it is to book it. there it was an obvious jump into the stadiums.

What comes to mind when you recall the Monster Tour? How much of an admin headache was it for you having

It was their first stadium tour, so it was all very to cancel all those dates while Bill Berry and Mike
exciting and it kicked off fantastically. Then it was one Mills recuperated?

hiccup after the other, but it turned out very well and A world tour like this for any band, be it Billie Eilish
thank God everyone was fit and healthy at the end of it or Blur, Radiohead or Red Hot Chili Peppers, it takes a
all. It was always on the cards that they would be touring good year to plan it, book it, organise it and get
Monster, having not toured since Green, and so many everything into shape. But it just takes just one phone
territories had opened up for the band that we'd never call to cancel it! You get everyone on the phone at once
played before. It turned very much into a world tour rather and explain the situation and everyone has to go back to
than just sections. Plus, the band wanted to do as many the insurers and claim on insurance or you roll 1% over
open-air dates as possible. From day one, they always had and hope they’ || come back to the new shows and new dates.
a healthy attitude towards European festivals - they liked It was very upsetting and it was still worrying with Bill
them maybe more than the American side of it. We'd played because he'd just come out of a huge brain operation and
[Belgium festivals] Rock Torhout and Rock Werchter very we weren't too sure how he was going to perceive the
early on in their career and they thoroughly enjoyed it, rest of the tour. It was walking on eggshells to make
and we'd played a few 5wiss festivals before that as well. sure that the tour would restart.

What can you remember about ticket sales? Was it a roaring At which point did you consider it a success?
success straight away? When we did Slane Castle in Dublin. It was an

It was. When we opened up, the tickets just flew out. and we absolutely beautiful show, a lovely, beautiful, warm
rolled into second nights and third nights straight away. It day. Ihe band have always had a very strong affinity
was a huge demand because | suppose /0 percent of their with Dublin and Ireland. I remember driving back to

audience who'd bought the previous albums hadn't seen the the hotel and I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking,
band live. [he ticket sales told me that this was a band now "Okay, we're back up and running."

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certainly did. So that was really пісе.”

The group's mammoth UK shows
were only weeks away, but first there was
another medical emergency to overcome.
The previous year, Mike Mills had
undergone surgery for diverticulitis, a
digestive condition that affects the large
intestine. There had been a 2% chance
that connective tissue could constrict the
internal organs in the wake of the
operation, and Mills found the odds going
against him as he struggled through shows,
often having to be helped onstage. After
numerous doctors struggled to diagnose the
problem, eventually his GP back in Athens
advised that he required immediate emergency
surgery. “The R.E.M. ethic was always, ‘If
you re not in the hospital, you're onstage.’ I
was both!” laughs Mills today.

Yet more gigs had to be cancelled and now
the UK leg, taking in giant shows at Dublin’s
Slane Castle, Cardiff Arms Park,
Huddersfield’s Alfred McAlpine Stadium,
Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium and The
National Bowl at Milton Keynes, was touch
and go. Bertis Downs remembers asking, “If all
goes well, when would Mike be able to recover
for?” ‘The surgeon told him, “10 days or so”.

“Slane was 11 days away," Downs
recollects. “And Mills took care of himself. He
had good medical care, he did exactly what
they asked him to do. The idea that we would
have had to cancel all those earlier indoor
shows in the spring and then cancel the entire
outdoor shows... I don’t think we ever could
have come back. At that point it would have
been like, Соте on, guys’, even though they
were clearly matters beyond our control.”

Stipe would make it three casualties out
of four when he underwent a hernia
operation later that summer, but Mills refuses
to countenance the Monster jaunt as a “cursed
tour’. "We never thought that,” he asserts,
“it’s completely inaccurate." Instead, opines
the amicable bassist, it was simply the law of
averages catching up with them. "We'd been
remarkably disaster-free for the first 15 years
of our existence, and then all of a sudden
you re doing a very difficult tour and three
completely unrelated things happen to the
band. Nobody ever thought anything
mystical or weird about it. We did joke that
Peter would be looking both ways when he

crossed the street, but we never felt any sort of

negative thing about the tour itself."

Тһе National Bowl, Milton Keynes, 30
July 1995. It's a scorching hot summer's day at
this 65,000-capacity amphitheatre in
Buckinghamshire. Backstage, Michael Stipe
sunbathes with Radiohead's Thom Yorke
outside one of the dressing rooms. The
Oxfordshire quintet, plus Sleeper and The
Cranberries, are supporting today and this is
the first time the two singers have met. It is the
start of a long and deep friendship between the
pair. Tonight is the last show of what has been
a triumphant run of British and Irish gigs for
R.E.M., a week that their camp will look back
on as a defining moment in their history. "We

called it The Week That Was," says Bertis
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Downs. “We felt so lucky that those late dates
in July happened.”

Stipe loved being in the position of hand-
picking some of his favourite acts to support
them that week. The previous night, Blur had
been among the groups who opened up for
them. “I was always a fan of Blur,” he says
now, “апа so being able to see them perform
was a great joy.

For Mike Mills, іс was impossible not to
cast his mind back to the prior occasion that
they d played Milton Keynes Bowl, 10 years
previously. As they propped up the bill at The
Longest Day, an event headlined by their
future pals U2, in 1985, the audience informed
them what they thought of the set in the age-
old British manner. "We had large bottles of
piss helicopter the stage," says Mills, "so it was
kind of gratifying to come out and be the
headliner and have everyone love you."

Mills undoubtedly found himself thinking
back to the road that had got them here, too. It
was 12 years before that R.E.M. played their
first UK show at London's Dingwalls on a
damp and rainy night in November 1983.
Lemmy was in the audience, as was Thin
Lizzy’s Phil Lynott. “We had a good crowd, we
had a lot of fun,” says Mills. “We were thrilled
to be in England. I was discovering the joy of a
pint of bitter. It was a super time. It was
definitely a culture shock, the way the housing
was set up, the way the television was rather
strange. There wasn't really a whole lot to eat
except curry, which is fine, we love curry, but
there just wasn't much else.”

R.E.M.’s bassist believes it's a blessing
that the band didn t have instant success
anywhere, that they took incremental steps
with every record and each tour without ever
feeling like they'd missed a few rungs on the
ladder. "Obviously Losing My Religion
jumped the dial up to the top," he reflects,
“but other than that, everything had been
gradual, including England. Each tour we did
got a little more comfortable, a little more
people. By the time we got to the big shows,
we felt like we'd earned that success. We
worked really hard to get there.”

Getting to play those as-far-as-the-eye-can-
see mega-gigs never got old for Mills. Similarly,
he always revelled in playing the band’s hits.

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End of the road: Stipe onstage with R.E.M. at The
Omni, Atlanta, GA, on the final leg of the Monster
Tour, filmed for Road Movie, November 1995;
bottom right: taxi for R.E.M., London, 1995

“Not to sound naive, but it's kind of a dream,”
he says. "Losing My Religion was a hit literally
all over the world and people loved it and we
never got tired of playing it. You know the
stories about bands that have one or two hits
and they never want to play them again
because they have to play them every night?
We never felt that way. Losing My Religion
was something I looked forward to every night,
Man On The Moon the same thing. Playing
them was like seeing an old friend: you know
you re gonna go out and have a really good
knees-up and that's what we did."

At shows like Milton Keynes, Stipe would
spend the hours preceding stage-time
desperately trying not to think about what he
was about to do. He'd watch the opening
bands and challenge himself with the idea that
each was raising a bar he needed to live up to.
He says it always took him three songs to hit
his stride but, after that, the adrenaline kicked
in and he felt unstoppable.

“Т became a Colossus Of Maroussi, like I
can do anything, Henry Miller is gonna write a
book about me," he declares, grandly. "It's an
absurd journey through adrenaline, something
that all of us will experience at least once in our
lives, but I experienced it as part of my job for
the better part of 32 years."

"LLast time| we had bottles of piss

flying at the stage.

It was gratifying to

have everyone love you" - Mike Mills

Photo: Getty

At that point in his career, Stipe had
become a natural stadium-rock frontman, a
charismatic, magnetic ringleader who could
effortlessly connect with an immense sea of
people. “Т had become this creature that could
do that thing and do it really well. I was really
performing, I was excited with what we were
offering, excited by the show and the lights and
the movies, all the stuff we were presenting to
the audience. I made myself bigger than life in
order to actually engage that size audience."

He took some inspiration from British
elam rock, he remembers, as well as Iggy &
The Stooges, New York Dolls and the ironic
theatrics of U2's Achtung Baby and Zooropa
tours. "Being able to look at themselves from a
distance and also kind of laugh at themselves
and make fun of themselves, I took a lot from
that,” he says of Bono’s crew. “I’m grateful to
them for providing that example."

During one last trek across the US in
autumn 1995, more and more of the material
that would make up New Adventures In Hi-Fi
began to appear in R.E.M.’s live set, with
recorded versions being captured in
soundchecks and gigs. The sweeping rock of
Undertow was committed to tape, as were
versions of Electrolite, Binky The Doormat, So
Fast, So Numb, Low Desert, Leave and The
Wake-Up Bomb. The wacky instrumental
Zither was recorded in the expansive bathroom
of a sports team, but not all on-the-road cuts
made the record.

“We had some issues with Be Mine,” Mills
says of the album’s lo-fi ballad. “We had a great
version that I recorded on the bus; it's so good
but there’s a hum from the bus that made it
unusable.” After all the near-death experiences,
the medical calamities and heady triumphs, the
Monster Tour concluded with a trio of victory

NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI

laps in their home state, three nights at
Atlanta's The Omni that were filmed for Peter
Саге 5 concert film Road Movie [see panel].
After a short break and a two-month
period going through everything they'd
recorded at John Keane Studios in Athens,
R.E.M. entered Bad Animals Studios in Seattle
with long-term producer Scott Litt to complete
work on New Adventures In Hi-Fi. “The onus
was largely on me to complete the songs by
writing a lyric and a melody and then talk to
the band about arrangement," Stipe explains.
"Some of the stuff that had been recorded live
needed to be re-arranged and some of it was
able to stay the way it was. Like the song Leave,
it goes on for seven minutes. That was a choice
at the time and I would probably shorten it if I
were working on it now. But it's still a
beautiful song and it pulls you into a vista and
an atmosphere that is truly cinematic, that
spoke a lot to how I interpret music. I close my

eyes and I see a landscape. When I knew

R.E.M.

R.E.M. had done something well — [that] was
when I could close my eyes and I would see a
movie, I would see this cinematic stretch of
narrative and sound."

As a result of his living on the West Coast,
the desert and the history of the modern US
had taken root in Stipe's writing. "You know,
LA is a desert, Southern California is a desert,
Nevada and parts of Arizona are desert and we
colonised and created these giant cities in the
desert, so there are songs and references to
water rights," he muses. "There are references
to electricity and the distribution of goods

throughout the songs, in tracks like Low
Desert and Electrolite and How The West

Was Won And Where It Got Us and Leave."

At the time he speaks to RC; Stipe is
putting together a book of his lyrics and he says
there's an entire chapter dedicated to the
American West from things he wrote with
R.E.M. Other recurring themes he's noticed
from across his career include movement, travel
velocity and an overriding sense of
displacement. "What could be more 21st
century than that?" he says, looking back. "We
are for the rest of our lives going to experience
a present and a future of refugees, be they
political or environmental."

Stipe says that feeling of self-dislocation
and not having a home as much as having a
base goes back to his youth as the son of a US
Army serviceman, constantly moving. "We
had a very peripatetic, nomadic upbringing as
kids, my sister and I. But then, we finally
settled in Athens, Georgia when my father
retired, only for me to form a band and start
really travelling as a 20-year-old. I never looked
back." Pre-Covid, Stipe would move on to a
new place every two or three weeks. He's
hyperactive, he says, and he was born that way.
“I came into a fever at the age of two that
almost killed me, and it boiled my brain. So, I
approach things in a somewhat different way
than most people."

It wasn’t until R.E.M.'s third album,
1985's Fables Of The Reconstruction, that
Stipe began to feel comfortable with his lyrical
output. "Until then, I was really recording
stuff that we had performed live, some of it
complete nonsense," he says. He believes his
words on their 1983 debut Murmur should
be treated in the same way as the vocals of
Sigur Rós, Cocteau Twins or Athens' other
significant post-punk quartet Pylon:

essentially melodic gibberish. "It's the human
voice as an instrument and the experience of
listening to something for its emotive and
emotional attributes much more than any
kind of narrative or sensible storytelling," he

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ventures. "It wasn't until Fables Of The
Reconstruction that I felt I had created a little
niche where I could work and reached a level
of discernible accomplishment."

The words to one of the key tracks on New
Adventures. .., and one of the band's greatest
ever songs, are more a recitation than a song
part. The frontman can remember the
moment he first heard the music for the song
that would become E-Bow The Letter during a
soundcheck, thinking to himself, Tve got
something for this'. He ran to their tour bus,
dug through his suitcase and pulled out a letter
һе а written — undelivered with the intended
recipient never disclosed — and ran back onto
the stage and started reading it out over the
music. It turned into the swaying drone-folk

Armchair adventurers — R.E.M. work on songs for New Adventures In Hi-Fi,
1996 (clockwise from top left): Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike

Mills. Opposite page: Stipe and Mills onstage in Atlanta, November 1995

ballad with a spoken word vocal that features a
stirring croon from guest Patti Smith.

“We had become friends at that point,”
says Stipe of the punk poet’s cameo. “Of
course, she was my mentor who made R.E.M. a
band in the first place. She was the person that
both Peter and I referenced in our first meetings
with each other, someone that we greatly
admired. She was our hero. Getting to meet her
and becoming friends was a great honour.”

R.E.M. had attempted to work with
Smith before but it was a non-starter. “I had
written Everybody Hurts as a duet,” Stipe
reveals. “I wrote it with the idea of
approaching Patti Smith to sing a duet with
me. We approached her and it just wasn't the
right time for her to do something like that.

"I'm proud that we stayed together for
that long and did that much good work.
And we're still friends" - Mike Mills

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So, when E-Bow The Letter came along,
I think we were all thrilled, including Patti,
to work on something together."

E-Bow The Letter was hardly the sort of
thing that your dad was going to whistle along
to, a track that wouldn't appeal to anyone
who'd got into R.E.M. because they loved
blasting Shiny Happy People out of their Ford
Mondeo. The decision to release it as the lead
single was a sign of the band trying to push the
boundaries as far as they could, says Stipe.

“We were in a position to create power
with МТУ and with radio,” he states. “That
alone is why we released the most un-single-
like song ever recorded as the first single,
effectively tanking the record in terms of being
able to chart, but that’s okay. We were proud
of it, and I’m still proud of doing that. R.E.M.
were hugely famous at that point and radio had
to play what we put out. So, we were like,

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Let's push this as far as we can.

“Arrogant bastards!” laughs Mike Mills of
the decision to lead with it. “It was obviously
not a good career move. We were

Photos: (polaroids) Chris B

confounding expectations. Shit, we led U»
[the follow-up album, from 1998] with
Airportman, one of the most obnoxious songs
in the history of R.E.M. We didn't mind
shaking the boat a little."

E-Bow The Letter was released in the UK
on 19 August, 1996, with New Adventures In
Hi-Fi following on 9 September, 1996. The
album entered the UK charts at No 1 (so much
for tanking!) and, while sales were lower than
the colossal figures for Out Of Time and
Automatic For The People, it went on to sell a
just-about-respectable seven million copies.

“I thought it was a demanding record, I
thought it was a challenging record, it’s diverse,
it's long, it's got some things where... let's just
say their charms аге not immediately apparent,”
Mills considers, ^which is great, because Га

rather have a song that sounds better the 50th R.E.M. se | ected UK discography

time you ve heard it. | | SINGLES
Bertis Downs thinks that the whole 83 IRS PFP 1017 Radio Free Europe/There She Goes Again (7", р/5)..................................... £50
experience of creating New Adventures... on the 83 IRS PFSX 1026 Talk About The Passion/Shaking Through/Carnival Of Sorts
: 1 | (Box Cars)/1,000,000 (12", р/б).................................... ee ызы БАӘ
road taught К.Е.М. that they could make a 84 IRS IRS 105 So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)/King Of The Road (7", р/5)............................... £10
record anywhere. Down the line, the band 84 ІН5 IRSX 105 So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)/Voice Of Harold/Pale Blue Eyes (12", p/s) ....... £15
would work with Jacknife Lee on their 2008 84 IRS IRS 107 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville/Wolves (7”, р/5). .............................................. £8
Е | | | E. 84 IRS IRSX 107 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville/Wolves/9-9 (Live)/
record Accelerate, the Irish producer insisting the Gardening At Night (Live) (12", р/в)........./2240.20м0222.. —— má XE
band set up at a chapel in Athens to record 85 IRS IRM 102 Can't Get There From Here (3:10 Edit)/Bandwagon (7", p/s) ......................... £8
i ee Rs pis 85 IRS IRT 102 Can't Get There From Here (sleeve states Extended; label, LP version; plays 3:39
rather than head Hos traditional studio. Edit)/Bandwagon/Burning Hell (12", p/s, some w/ banner re unissued cuts) £10/£6
Downs sees a direct correlation between the two 85 IRS IRM 105 Wendell Gee/Crazy (7", p/s) secccccccscscsscssssssssssesesessesessstsvssesesesesesvesssvsvsveveseseee: £6
scenarios. “Before New Adventures. .., it would 85 IRS IRMD 105 Wendell Gee/Crazy//Ages Of You/Burning Down (2x/", gatefold p/s)........... s EI
n o the band io do thines 85 IRS IRMT 105 Wendell Gee/Crazy/Driver 8 (Live) (12”, p/s, small band title,
| | ко Б later large lettering, na р/в) анаа анаа нна £10/£8
quite so weird, quite so out the way," he says. 86 IRS IRM 121 Fall On Me/Rotary Ten (7", p/s, gold or silver label, later blue)...............- £4/£4/£5
They didn’t know it at the time of release, 86 IRS IRMT 121 Fall On Me/Rotary Ten/Toys In The Attic (12", p/s) зарына L LETT £6
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ut 4 VEW Adventures... Was the end ог an era тог 86 IRS IRM 128 T Superman/White Tornado/Femme Fatale (12", El Hasan au E12
R.E.M. In October 1997, Bill Berry announced 86 IRS DIRM 128 Superman/White Tornado/Femme Fatale (CD, unissued) ............................... £0
L: | “А leer Ls | 81 IRS IRM 145 It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And І Feel Fine) (2:59 Edit)/
his departure from the band. “I'm kind of ready This One Goes Out (Live) (7”, p/s, gold or metallic blue label) ..................... £8/£8
to sit back and reflect and maybe not bea pop 87 IRS IRMT 145 It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (2:59 Edit)/
star anymore, said the drummer. “Не decided This One Goes Out (Live)/Maps And Legends (Live) (12", p/s) ....................... £8
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hospital beds in Europe, he wanted to live a 87 IRS DIRM 146 The One I Love/Last Date/Disturbance At The Heron House (Live) (CD)......... =
quieter life,” says Downs. “It was a good 88 IRS IRM 161 Finest Worksong/Time After Time Etc (Live) (/”, p/s, most with yellow sticker
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close. Bill is very much a part of the legacy.” Time After Time, Etc Medley (12", p/s) ................ enne BLO
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trio, a period in which there would be more (CD, numbered/stencilled 6" box, 5,000-опуу)................................................. £15
highs апа more huge shows, until their eventual 88 IRS IRM 1/3 The One I Love/Fall On Me (7”, reissue, variant р/5)........................................ £4
TON U MR e pn 88 IRS IRMT 173 The One I Love/Fall Оп Me/So Central Rain (12", р/с) ................................ ... £6
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imperial phase. 'Their debut single Radio Free 89 Warners W 7577 Stand/Memphis Train Blues (7”, р/с).............................................. £5
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Europe turned 40 earlier this year and Stipe 89 Warners W 7577 T Stand/Memphis Train Blues/(The Eleventh Untitled Song) (12", p/s)....... ....... ET
messaged his old bandmates about the 89 Warners W 7577 CD Stand/Memphis Train Blues/(The Eleventh Untitled Song) (3" CD)................. £8
anniversary. *I texted the guys," he says. “And 81 Warners W 75/7 CDX Stand/Memphis Train Blues/(T he Eleventh Untitled Song)

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we all said, “Wow, I can't believe it’s been this 89 Warners W 2960 Orange Crush/Ghost Riders (7", p/s) ...ccscsssecsecsecssecseeseeseeseeseesessesstesseeeees „....®5
long.’ Forty years is а long time. It's two thirds 89 Warners W 2960 X Orange Crush/Ghost Riders (7", p/s, recycled paper sleeve) ............................ £6
бту lie scary 89 Warners W 2960 B Orange Crush/Ghost Riders (/" The Green Package’ box set, with poster,

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Near Wild Heaven/Pop Song '89(Live Acoustic) (/", p/s) .............. — — £4
Near Wild Heaven/Pop Song '89 (Live Acoustic)/

Hair A World Away (Live) (127. B/S) iacu eux a ea аала Каа Еа а ЕРЕЕН ER £8
Near Wild Heaven/Tom's Diner (Live)/Low (Live)/Endgame (Live) (CD) — £5
Radio Song/Love Is All Around (Live) (7”, p/s) .............................................. „ЕЗ
Radio Song/Love Is All Around (Live)/Shiny Happy People

(Music MIX) (12”, КК КИКЕКИККЕЛЕРНЕЕКИКЕЕКЕКЕНЕЕЕКИККЕЕ £6
Radio Song/You Are My Everything (Live)/Orange Crush (Live)/

Belong (Live) (CD, with slipcase for set of four limited-run CDs)......................... £6

The One I Love/Crazy (7”, second reissue, juke box issues with black label) .. £4/£8
The One І Love/This One Goes Out (Live)/Maps And Legends

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The One І Love/Driver 8 (Live)/Disturbance At The Heron

House (Live)/Crazy (CD, with four-page аіѕсовгарћу)........................................ ЕБ
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And І Feel Fine) (Edit)/

Radio Free Europe (LP Version) (/”, gold or silver labels, p/s). ................... £8/£8

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And І Feel Fine)/Radio Free
Purope (Hib- -Tone Version)/T ime After Time Medley (Live)

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Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone Version)/Last Date (Live)/White Tornado (CD).. £5
Drive/World Leader Pretend (7”, p/s, silver injection or white paper labels,

juke box issues with silver or black label) „ннн. Nueve £2/£3/£4/£4
Drive/World Leader Pretend/First We Take Manhattan (12", 0/5). arse £8
Drive/World Leader Pretend/First We Take Manhattan (CD)......................... .£4
Drive/It's A Free World, Baby/Winged Mammal Theme/

First We Take Manhattan (CD) ................................................................... £5
Man On The Moon (Edit)/Turn You Inside-Out-

(T^, MS: silver ihjection ог paper label) si rico £3/£5
Man On The Moon (Edit)/Turn You Inside-Out/Arms Of Love

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Man On The Moon (Edit)/Fruity Organ/New Orleans

Instrumental #2/Arms Of Love (CD) ............................................ Е X YTEER £4
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight/Get Up (/", р/с)............................................ £3
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight/The Lion Sleeps Tonight/Fretless CD) таннен £4
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight/Organ Song/Star Me Kitten (Demo) (CD) ...... £4
Everybody Hurts (Edit)/Pop Song 89 (7”, р/)................................................ £3
Everybody Hurts (Edit)/New Orleans Instrumental #1 (Long Version)/

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Everybody Hurts (Edit)/Dark Globe/Chance (Dub) (CD).................................. £4
Nightswimming/Losing My Religion (Live)

(4^, p/S, paper or silver injection labels)...................... eee nenne £5/£5
Nightswimming/World Leader Pretend (Live)/Belong (Live)/Low (Live)

(12” picture disc, one-sided, die-cut сігеуе)...................................«.ш- жасаса ааа. .. £8
Nightswimming/World Leader Pretend (Live)/Belong (Live)/Low (Live) (CD)... . £4
Find The River/Everybody Hurts (Live) (7”, р/5).............................................. £6
Find The River/Everybody Hurts (Live)/Orange О AE ———r" £3
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Man On The Moon (Live) (СО).............................................................. ЕЕ 2.
Bang And Blame (Album Version)/Bang And Blame (К Version) .................... £5
Bang And Blame (Album Version)/Losing My Religion (Live)/

Country Feedback (Live)/Begin The Begin (Live) (СП).................................... £3
Strange Currencies/Strange Currencies (Instrumental)

(7^, p/s, dayglo yellow/green vinyl, with pin badge) ............................................ £6

Strange Currencies/Drive (Live)/Funtime (Live)/Radio Free Europe (Live) (CD) £3
Crush With Eyeliner/Crush With Eyeliner (Instrumental)

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Tongue/Tongue (Instrumental) (/^, p/s, 12-page booklet) Wik £6
Tongue/What’s The Frequency Kenneth (Live)/Bang And Blame (Live)/

| Don’t Sleep, | Dream (Live) (CD)... ——————— £5
E-Bow The Letter (Seattle Studio)/Ti ricycle (St Louis Soundcheck)/

Departure (Rome Soundcheck)/Wall Of Death (Athens Studio) (CD) ............. £3

Bittersweet Me (Memphis Soundcheck)/Undertow (Live Atlanta)/
Wichita Lineman (Live Houston)/New Test Leper (Ac'stic Seattle Studio)(CD) £3
Electrolite/The Wake-up Bomb (Live Atlanta)/Binky The Doormat

(Live Atlanta)/King Of Comedy (808 State Remix) (CD) ................................. £3
Daysleeper/Emphysema/Why Not Smile (Oxford American Version) (CD) ...... £3
Daysleeper/Sad Professor (Live In The Studio) (3" CD)...... EEE ЕБ
Lotus/Surfing The Ganges/Lotus (Weird Mix) (CD).............. — PM— ОТЫ £3
Lotus/Suspicion r (Live In The Studio) (3" СП).............................................. £5
At My Most Beautiful (Radio Remix)/Passenger (Live On "Later With Jools
Holland")/Country Feedback (Live On "Later With Jools Holland") (CD) ...... m 52.
At My Most Beautiful (Live On Radio 1)/So. Central Rain

(Live On "Later With Jools Holland") (3" СО)................................................. £5

Suspicion (Album Version)/Electrolite (Live On "Later With Jools Holland")/
Man On The Moon (Live On "Later With Jools Holland") (CD, UK/Germany) £5/£3
Suspicion (Live From Ealing Studios)/Perfect Circle

(As Performed Оп BBC's "Later With Jools Holland") (3" CD)........................ £5
The Great Beyond (Radio Edit)/Everybody Hurts (Live Fom AGITUR

The One I Love (Live Fom Glastonbury) (СО)................................................. £3
Imitation Of Life (Album Version)/The Lifting (Original Version)/

Beat А Drum (Dalkey Demo) (СП).............................................................. ... ЕЗ
Imitation Of Life/2JN/The Lifting (Original Version) (DVD sifigle) ғ: nnn £4

All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)/Yellow River/Imitation Of Life
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Animal/Pretty Persuasion (Live)/Losing My Religion (Live) (Video)

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Leaving New York/ (Don't Go Back) To Rockville (Live) ( /", picture disc) ....... £8
Leaving New York/(Don't Go Back) To Rockville (Live) (CD) ——— £3
Leaving New York/You Are Everything (Live)/These Days (Live) (CD) ........... £3
Aftermath/High Speed Train (Live) (СО)............................................. Se £5
Aftermath/So Fast So Numb (Live)/All The Right Friends (Live) (CD)... —— £4
Electron Blue/What’s The Frequency, Kenneth (Live)

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Electron Blue/What's The Frequency, Kenneth qi ПОП ——— езе £5
Electron Blue/Sweetness Follows (Live)/Leaving New York (Live) (Video)
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Wanderlust/The Outsiders (red vinyl 1^, PVC sleeve with insert).............. £5
Wanderlust/Low (Alternate Version) (CD) ................................................... £5
Wanderlust/The Outsiders (Alternate Version)/Bad — (Live) (Video)
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Supernatural Superserious/Airliner (CD) ..................................... — ЖЕЗ ЕЗ
Supernatural Superserious/Airliner/Red Head Walking (CD) ....................... £5
Hollow Man/Horse To Water (Live) (СП).................................................... £5
Hollow Man/Horse To Water (Live)/Indian Summer (iTunes download) — £1

Man Sized Wreath/Living Well Jesus Dog (clear vinyl 7”, PVC stickered sleeve) .. £10
Man Sized Wreath/Living Well Jesus Dog/Mr Richards (Live) (iTunes DL)..... £1
Until The Day Is Done/Houston (Live) (iTunes-only DL)................................. £1
Uberlin/What’s The Frequency, Kenneth (Live) (7”, p/s, Record Store Day) . £15

MURMUR (LP, with/out 'Original sound recording made by IRS.

Inc" on label, A&M pressing, later EMI)......... mnn — £30/£25/£20
RECKONING (LP, inner sleeve, with/out SP 70044 credit) ——— £20/£20
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LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT (LP, inner sleeve) ............................................. Ғ20
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OUT OF TIME (LP, inner sleeve, outer text on 1 label all round label rim,
some with free 7" PR 610 [World Leader Pretend (Live)/

Turn You Inside-Out (Live)], later text around half of rim)............... £40/£30/£20
92 Warners WX 488 AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE (LP, inner sleeve) ....... ————— £40
94 Warmers 9362 457401 MONSTER (LB) sess £80
96 Warners 9362 463210 1 NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI (2LP, gatefold sleeve)... ns 2100
Ss Wanner 93602 rrr; БЕШСІР. ТАВ) issesiesssaseukxsstuUVE Ue REESE EEE О ГГ £100
O1 Warners 9362 4/9461 REVEAL (LP, insert)... ——————— E — £80
O4 Warners 9362 488941 AROUND THE SUN (2LP, inner sleeves) .. TiC MMT BLOG
08 Warners 9362 49885 8 ACCELERATE (CD, gatefold A ssa — £8
11 Warners 9362 496269 COLLAPSE INTO NOW (LP, іпсегі)................................................ e ЖӨО
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09 Warners 9362 49748 1 LIVE AT OLYMPIA IN DUBLIN (2СП/ПОУр)............................................1..2.2 д ы ы, £10
14 Rhino 8122 /9595 / UNPLUGGED 1991 & 2001 (THE COMPLETE SESSIONS) (2CD) — — £20
18 Craft 00888072067721 BEST OF REM AT THE ВВС (21Р, gatefold ѕіееуе)........................................... £25
19 Craft 008880/2091/33 BINGO HAND JOB LIVE 1991 (21Р, inner sleeves, Record Store Day) — — £30
COMPILATIONS
8/ IRS SP 70054 DEAD LETTER OFFICE (LP, inner sleeve, some light patterned) .......... .. £15/£10
88 IRS DMIRG 1038 ЕРОМҮЛЮЦЕ-ГІР-ТІПЕГШЕЕУЕР -е-сесагмеаенмеанынышағыныыышылны £10
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Heviews 100 From The Vaults 110 New Albums 116 Books 118 Singles 119 DVDs 132 Lives

From Ihe Vaults

Heissues, remasters and compilations

The Be-All And End-All

The final word on their final release, or is it?

The Beatles

Let It Be
ЖЖЖЖ

Apple Corps/Capitol/Ume 0713889 (CD, 2CD, 5CD, BD, ІР, БІР)

To call the last long-player that The Beatles released
(a month after the official split announcement) their
most fractious, is something of an understatement.
Recorded in a climate of uncertainty, of conflicting
opinions about future plans, and with various
members on the verge of walking away, it's incredible
the quartet were able to, at least temporarily, put the
experience behind them and reconvene to focus on
songs for the infinitely more cohesive Abbey Road.

Having already put together a rough mix at the
request of the group, producer and engineer Glyn
Johns was approached again, post-Abbey Road, only
for his efforts to be rejected for a second time. In
the 2014 autobiography, Sound Man, Johns offered
his own succinct, matter-of-fact assessment of what
happened next in the saga of Let It Be on its path to
finally reaching shops: John [Lennon] gave the tapes
to Phil Spector, who puked all over them, turning the
album into the most syrupy load of bullshit | have
ever heard."

Although this multi-disc overhaul, embracing
new re-masters, mixes and previously unreleased
rehearsal tapes follows in the relatively recent
footsteps of similar treatments to The Beatles (aka
‘The White Album’) and Abbey Road, it was actually
the first Fabs album to undergo a major facelift. It
was back in 2003 that Paul McCartney midwifed Let
It Be... Naked, a new mix to, if you will, de-Spector
the record and restore the stripped-down group
aesthetic he'd first hoped for.

Here, however, the archaeologist's trowel digs
significantly deeper into the studio and rehearsal
sessions, highlighting hitherto missed opportunities
to make the original album more satisfying. Johns'
early mix of Don't Let Me Down, Dig A Pony and
l've Got A Feeling as a run-on 11-minute suite
benefits all three songs, creating a grandeur to
match the subsequent Golden Slumbers medley
on Abbey Road.

On first listen, the title track and early hit Please
Please Me would appear to share little common
ground, but there's a grin-inducing playfulness at
work when we hear McCartney at the piano segue
from one to the other seemingly on a whim. It gives
the sense of the tongue-in-cheek charm the band
displayed in their early movies, sharing
a Joke with their audience but, more
importantly, finding ways to amuse
each other.

The past is referenced
again, when traditional
Liverpool folk tune Maggie
Mae (unceremoniously
ditched and absent from
the ...Naked version of the

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By Terry Staunton

album) is punctuated by a no-more-than-minute
detour into Fancy Me Chances With You, a post-
adolescence ditty John and Paul wrote at the height
of their boyish allegiance to skiffle. It sounds for all
the world like The Beatles undergoing spontaneous
self-therapy, sifting through old memories to recall
why they wanted to be a band in the first place.

Likewise, where much of the Let /t Be film
gave the impression of ever-widening divisions in
a group on a fast track to collapse, there are further
illustrations of the camaraderie that still existed
between the four men, if not on every day they spent
holed up together. George Harrison's For You Blue
(Таке Four, it says here) barrels along on the swing of
its writer's acoustic guitar, with Lennon's lap steel in
hot pursuit, and Ringo Starr's brushes at their loose-
wristed laconic best. "That was lovely!" declares
George at its conclusion, and he's not wrong.

Harrison is also centre-stage on a revealing
rehearsal of the song that would, to all intents and
purposes, come to be regarded as the pinnacle of
his Beatles-related output when knocked into final,
sublime shape for Abbey Road. As he explains in
the chatter caught on tape, he'd been toiling over
something for about six months, but was struggling
on the precise wording of its second line. Just say
whatever comes into your mind," suggests John.
“Attracts me like a cauliflower...” We should give
thanks he ultimately opted to follow a different path
to the vegetable similes.

The unheard material (which runs to a majestic
57 tracks on the deluxe package of the many
formats available) frequently illustrates how Lennon
and McCartney continued to at least attempt
collaboration, exploding any myth that, by this point
in the group's lifespan, they worked only in isolation
from each other. A game stab at Gimme Some
Truth shows an element of promise, but neither
man sounds happy with its progress and discuss

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moving on to "write" something
else, leaving John to revisit

his embryonic sketch when
recording his /magine album.

Its perhaps telling that they
should be more in sync when
harking back to past shared
passions, and the spirited jam of
Paul's Oh! Darling is a joy, laced
with the heartfelt simplicity of
the doo-wop ballads that they
loved in their youth. Macca has
rarely sounded so emotionally
connected to a song, and his
freeform testifying, "Believe
me when | tell you" 15 excitedly
received by his bandmate's
resounding, “Oh, | do!”

Moments like the above
serve to paint a picture of the
dynamic between four men
who, while Inevitably resigned
to growing gulfs and an erosion
of personal relationships, are
nonetheless still capable of
a powerful musical alchemy.
The more scholarly listeners will
relish the insights they afford,
but most of us will just wallow in
the thrills.

Of course, the album isn't
the only artefact from the period
to undergo expansion and
upholstering; director Michael
Lindsay-Hogg’s sombre Let It
Be documentary has been out
of circulation for decades, and
looks set to be determinedly
superseded by Get Back, Peter
Jackson's three feature-length
documentary series constructed
from the same source material
of more than 140 hours of
raw footage.

Purists and/or naysayers
may feel compelled to accuse
the surviving Beatles of green-
lighting a brazen rewriting of
their history, but who among us
(who weren't there when it all
went down) can say, with
any degree
of real
confidence,
which individual
interpretation
is really the

closest to
the truth?

Record Collector 101

From Ine Vaults

Children Of

The Revolution

Thom Yorke & co's bid for freedom

comes of age. By Kevin Harley

Radiohead

Kid A Mnesia

KK KK

XL Recordings XL 1166 (SCD, 3LP, two-cassette)

On its release in 2000, Kid A resisted critical
consensus. Some pundits came tearing out of the gate
and cried “wank,” others heralded a new dawn in rock
acts using the studio as an instrument. Elsewhere,
opinion fell between two stools: either the aloum was
a wilful retreat from the band’s core strengths, or

a bold flight towards bracingly unknown futures.

Now, Kid A seems to luxuriate in this unsettled
State of liminality, “at sea” in the best possible way.
Its supposed rupture from Radiohead’s past comes
crystallised in myth: propelled by Thom Yorke's
breakdowns, Kid A herded the band away from guitars
and melodies, towards Mingus and Messiaen, Warp
and other weirding ways. Yet warnings/promises
had been there, in Paranoid Android's attack-prog
strop, Meeting In The Aisle's uneasy blisstronica or
Subterranean Homesick Alien's off-world yearnings.

Whether you take the album’s resulting sense
of dissociation as an expression of millennial
unease or of Radiohead's band mindset, it remains
— transparently — its makers’ work. Wonky time
signature and dearth of guitars aside, Everything
In Its Right Place bathes in the same unnervingly
soothing waters as No Surprises. Like Exit Music (For
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On A Friday, First Tapes (No label, cassette, 1991)

Few signs of interstellar overdrive are evident on this variably
jangly, R.E.M.-ish five-track tape from Radiohead's former
selves. There's early proof of Jonny Greenwood's chug-a-
chug guitar chops colouring frenetic organ romp Nothing Touches Me,

Drill (Parlophone, CDR 6312, CD, 1992) £90

sw: The 'Head's début EP features four tracks, including demo
cuts of Pablo Honey's You, Prove Yourself and — in a thrashier
head-wobbling format — Thinking About You. Extra track
Stupid Car puts Yorke's vehicular metaphors into gear.

Desktop (Parlophone, no cat no, 6CD, 1998) £250 =
The B-sides to OK Computer's singles came collected in DM
this limited-edition (500) box set, which also squeezed in a

Radiohead: someone!
had just asked them

to play Creep |

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To Disappear
Completely
arrives

embodied by

a weightless

arrangement.

That same

sense extends
to the title-
track’s ventriloquist act, where Yorke’s treated
vocals resemble reverse dispatches from Twin
Peaks red room.

Should your preferred Radiohead be the jack-
knife-riffing art-rockers of Beavis and Butthead's
approval, Тһе National Anthem's esoteric aggro-
rumble, Optimistic's nursery rhyme throb and
Idioteque's jittery itch-pop offer escapist reinventions
of old urges. The ghost march of Morning Bell
stretches that desire to escape past frameworks,
before the hymnal Motion Picture Soundtrack signs
off tellingly: “I will see you in the next life," sings
Yorke, not so much suicidal as restless and willing
audiences to follow.

With this promise in mind, Amnesiac either
landed as a frustrating retread of Kid A or blessedly
familiar relief — another chance for audiences to
agjust. The truth sits in between. Where Kid A
couched a leap forward in Radiohead's language,

COLLECTING... Radiohead

beautifully (dis)

Amnesiac is its not-quite-equal sequel, ready for
sellotaping to its Kid brother. While Pulk/Pull Revolving
Doors reiterates Kid A's title-track, the blues-riffing

| Might Be Wrong is Optimistic's near-cousin. Morning
Bell/Amnesiac wears its lineage upfront; Life In

A Glasshouse reconfigures The National Anthem's
free-jazz ferment to funereal ends.

Yet the keepers lodge in the memory. Wormhole
strings and celestial pianos dignify Pyramid Song's
near-death meditation. You And Whose Army? is
Karma Police's shadow twin, Knives Out a haunting
hybrid of cannibal-horror imagery and liquid guitars.

If even Radiohead could not engineer another self-
overhaul so swiftly after Kid A, Amnesiac served
strong addendums.

For this coming-of-age reissue, third disc Kid
Amnesiae sets sketches towards the final thing
alongside signposts from paths untaken. Тһе beatific
Fog (Again Again), rootsy Follow Me Around and
luminescent If You Say The Word suggest Radiohead
did have a more tune-centric, guitar-based album
in them. Instead, they chose to drift into fresh
dimensions, influencing sound-seekers from Wilco to
Frank Ocean in the process. And, in the Pied Piper
spirit of Kid A's title-track, they proved fans would follow
them out of town. Two decades on, Kid A Mnesia is
the sound of stadium-rock's route maps being re-
navigated, by a band whose promise of commitment to
the "next life" wouldn't let the kids down.

T-shirt, an alien-embossed radio receiver and — hail to the future —

a mousepad. Atmospheric cuts Melatonin, A Reminder and Meeting In The

WW

Aisle presage Kid A's dream-trip forays.

Radiohead Bear (Parlophone, 5099951722968, USB
stick, 2007) £120

Stick it to the man. On their departure from Parlophone,
Radiohead collected the bear necessities of their work to
date on retro-futurist 4GB USB stick, from Pablo Honey to
Hail To The Thief via stingy eight-song live album / Might Be Wrong.

8 Outtakes From Amnesiac (Warner/Chappell, SC

0701, CDR, US, 2001) ЕТО

This US teaser with a self-explanatory title provides further

evidence of Radiohead's deep pool of early 2000s potential.
| = Cuttooth is a krautrock gem, Worrywort an Eno-ish beauty,

Kinetic another car song. “Gotta keep moving...”

Matt Berry haven't quite fallen for his way country-tinged tracks from second volume isolation ballad Euthanasia,
Gather Up with a melody. Spanning his 2020's Phantom Birds sound that continues previously available on Cave
sie oe ok ok ten years and nine albums at even more Impressive amid what Cave Things as a picture disc;

Acid Jazz AJX 2 LP 605 (CD, 4CD, Acid Jazz, on Gather Up Berry the ornate folk-psych that calls a “strange unreleased Bad Seeds classic
2LP, 5LP) has curated the best of his abounds. Daryl Easlea and beautiful Vortex; Life Per Se (“deemed

too sad for Skeleton Tree”):
evocative Ghosteen out-
take Earthlings plus spoken

collection of lost songs”.
Compiled with Warren Ellis,
delights include Cave’s duet

work, complete with rarities.
The first two discs (which are
also available as a two-LP

Inspiring overview of a
decade of diverse delights
In another life,

Nick Cave &
The Bad Seeds

comic actor and one-LP set) are 21 tracks B-Sides & Rarities (Pt Il) with Debbie Harry for the word sound sketches and
and writer of commercial pop, starting Kk Kk * Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions instrumentals. Sending most
Matt Berry with Take My Hand, known to BMG 4050538626797 (2CD, 2LP) Project Free To Walk; Leonard _ tingles are “first” versions of
would be far many as the theme from Toast Magnificent second round Cohen’s Avalanche solo at Girl In Amber, Skeleton Tree

the piano; Push The Sky
Away live with Melbourne
symphony Orchestra;

and Waiting For You. A limited
seven-LP package pairs this
set with Part 1. Kris Needs

Of London. The nine-minute
Solstice lays bare his love of
Mike Oldfield, while the bare,

of stray songs
For devotees, it doesn't get
any better than this 2/-track

more revered as a singer-
songwriter; hopefully Gather
Up will astound those who

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Graham Collier
British Conversations
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My Only Desire Records MOD 004
(CD, 2LP)
Lost 70s UK jazz session
| zw UK label Му
| стасао Only Desire
| have fine form
unearthing UK
jazz gems, their
previous releases showcasing
excellent, previously unissued,
work by homegrown legends
such as Mike Westbrook and
Harry Beckett. This latest
release sees a session by
much-feted bassist,
bandleader and composer
Graham Collier rescued from
the vaults. Put to tape in
1975 for Swedish radio, it
finds Collier conducting a big
band through a five part suite
dedicated to the vagaries of
the British weather. As might
be expected from the subject
matter, a variety of musical
hues are present. Red Sky In
The Morning transitions from
its foreboding Bernard
Herrmann-esque opening into
driving jazz rock. Halo Round
The Sun is an upbeat and
distinctly groovy affair while
the reflective Mackerel Sky
pairs big brass textures with
brilliant guitar work by Ed
Speight. Paul Bowler

Directions
Echoes
KKK

Temporary Residence TRR 347 (LP)
Musical polymath’s cult
classic expanded
| m T Falling under

"T te) the spell of DJ
Shadow's
classic and
game-changing
debut
Enatroducing. ...., ex-Tortoise
founder Bundy K Brown
indulged his own sample-
laden impulse to produce a
highly-influential astral-jazz
mash-up, Issued as a limited
12" via UK imprint Soul Static
sound in 1997, Тһе record's
transcendent flux of hypnotic
bass, rippling piano, vibes,
snaking brass, snappy
percussion and deep-eastern
flourishes would go on to
inspire everyone from Four
Tet's Kieran Hedben to
London's burgeoning new Jazz
breed. Both original side-long
cuts — Echoes (Continental
Drift Version) and Echoes
(The Asymmetrical Excursion)
— are accompanied here by
the palimpsest demo, its
rougher hues still bearing the
traces of future greatness.

A Deadly Dragons remix
atomises its antecedents:
cosmic flow in a fusillade of
breakbeat scattershot and
detonating subwoofers,
proffering a noteworthy
postscript via abrasive
inversion. Spencer Grady

Baxter Dury
Mr Maserati 2001-2021
ЖЖЖЖ

Heavenly HVNLP 201 (CD, LP)
Victory lap for Dury's
subterranean scoundrels

| Towards the
end of the
timespan
covered by Mr
Maserati 2001-
2021, the #Meloo movement
forced a widespread reckoning
with notions of masculinity,
which Baxter Dury has
unpacked and critiqued
across his six solo albums
to date. While remaining
steadfastly honest about
the seedy types that hide
in the shadows, he skewers
anything approaching bravado,
sacrificing his characters to
female counterparts whose
taunts echo like a sardonic
Greek chorus (Leak At The
Disco, Prince Of Tears). Ol,
however, sees Dury expose
vulnerability, rather than
toxicity, as he comes to terms
with a childhood nemesis.
New song DOA, co-written
with his son, Kosmo, realises
something that Dury’s 2020
album, The Night Chancers,
edged towards, giving a taste
of what it might have been like
if Serge Gainsbourg swapped
his Zizi slip-ons for some
Nike high tops and dreamed
himself a hip-hop lullaby.
Jason Draper

Echo &

The Bunnymen
Flowers

ЖЖЖ

Demon DEMREC 948 (LP)
Siberia

Ж ЖЖЖ

Demon DEMREC 949 (21Р)
Post-reunion efforts of
varying success

By 2001,

Echo and the
Bunnymen's
post-
reformation
lustre had become something
more akin to a dim glow:
third regrouped effort Flowers
saw the McCulloch/Sergeant
axis sounding somewhat
disengaged, setting their
long-standing love of The
Doors (King Of Kings) and
Lou Reed (Buried Alive, Make
Me Shine) to a collection of
perfectly fine if hardly pulse-
racing songs. By contrast,
2005's 10th album Siberia
was the Bunnymen's last
true tilt at glory, their best set
since Ocean Rain benefitting
from the pair summoning
their distant early spirit: with
classic Bunnymen riffs raining
down (Stormy Weather, Of A
Life), Mac is in full-on Scouse
Sinatra croon mode, even
rewriting It Was a Very Good
Year on propulsive highlight
Parthenon Drive.

Shaun Curran

Everything But
The Girl

Eden

ЖЖЖЖ

Buzzin' Fly/Chrysalis ЕВТ 9001 V (LP)
Duo's idyllic debut revived
WR Anyone who
TEM thinks the 80s
„| were all about
we | clattering drum
WS Е machines,
new romantic poseurs and
spiky-haired synth-pop duos
might be surprised to find
that some acts during that
most ostentatious of decades
preferred a quieter, lower-key
approach. Like Everything But
The Girl, whose alluring debut,
1984's Eden, was notable
for ignoring the bombastic
production values that were
in vogue for a more organic
and mainly acoustic approach.
It's a good job they did, as
this 11-song album wouldn't
sound so perfect today,
especially if they'd brought
in the likes of Trevor Horn.
Instead, they teamed up with
Sade’s producer, Robin Millar,
who brought a cool jazzy
vibe to Tracey Thorn and Ben
Watt's beautifully wrought
meditations on love and life.
Paradise regained.
Charles Waring

Faust
Faust 1971-1974
ЖЖ Ж ЖЖ

Bureau В BB374 (SCD, ТЇР)
Krautrock motherlode with
monumental bonuses
Finally,
krautrock’s
most extreme
protagonists
get the

deluxe boxset
treatment that they and

their output fully deserve.
Faust 1971-1974 is limited
to a run of 2.000 on vinyl
and 1,000 on CD. Faust,

So Far, The Faust Tapes

and Faust IV are joined in
this wonderful set by the
previously unreleased Punkt
(recorded at Giorgio Moroder's
Musicland Studios in 1974),
plus Momentaufnahme 1 and
II's two discs of unreleased
Wumme studio diamonds.
Punkt is up with Faust's

most spectacular work for
allen catharsis and unsettling
unpredictability, veering
between Knockentanz’s wild
beat thrash and pastoral
piano reverie Schon Rund,
always threatened by sudden
unintelligible shouting,
skronking sax or robust goat
flatulence. Maybe it’s the
neatly trimmed times we

live in but, half a century
since Faust's sonic anarchy
first rang around this very
bedroom, it’s refreshing to find
their uniquely startling impact
апа trailblazing sonic anarchy
resonating louder than ever.
Kris Needs

Will follow in February.

REVIEWS

DOG TRUMPET
on vinyl
TWO HEADS ONE BRAIN

SUITCASE
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Fronted by brothers Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa,
Dog Trumpet have been playing, writing and recording their
music since the early 90s. Reg and Pete were founding
members of iconic Australian band Mental As Anything,
who hit the charts around the world with "Live It Up". The
band made a mark with their left field mix of music, art, video
and humour and leading eventually to ARIA awards and
induction into the Hall of Fame in 2009.

Recorded and produced by Peter at home in his 'South Road'
studio, the brothers have created an inventive and original
body of work distinguished by an eccentric and offbeat
harmonic warmth and melodic drive propelled by Reg's
distinctive slide guitar and Peter's elegant acoustic guitar
and mandolin. Their poetic, yet at times absurdist lyrics
are set against a sonic backdrop that could loosely be
described as a meld of rock and roll, psychedelic folk,
country and semi-abstract blues.

Demon Records now presents the first three albums, all
pressed on 180gram coloured vinyl: “Two Heads One
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From Ine Vaults

JAZZ

COLLECTOR

By Charles Waring

Though he was only 52” and often
used stacked telephone directories
on his piano stool to reach the

keys, ERROLL GARNER was a jazz
colossus who swung like a speed
demon and played in a florid,
virtuosic style. While his godlike
genius 15 widely acknowledged, less
well-known is that Garner was a
pioneer in the music business; in
1960, after he won a lawsuit against
Columbia, his desire to achieve
artistic freedom saw him found the
Octave label. The label's lifetime is
vividly chronicled by a limited edition
ДІР vinyl box set Liberation In
Swing — The Octave Records Story
And Complete Symphony Hall
Concert (ж ж ж ж Octave/Mack
Avenue), which comes housed in

a beautifully-packaged 60-page
hardback book enclosing several
essays, unseen archive photos and
hitherto unpublished illustrations by
Garner. In terms of its music, the box
set doesn't disappoint, leading with
the previously unissued Complete
Symphony Hall Concert, which has
27 tracks spread over six sides of
vinyl and finds Garner and his trio

in spectacular form in Boston. It's
bolstered with an LP called Sessions
pressed in white vinyl that presents
ten recently discovered studio
outtakes. If that wasn't enough,

the set allows you access all 12 of

Garner's Octave albums as hi-res
downloads.

Garner's recording career
began in the 1940s just when
Kansas pianist and bandleader
STAN KENTON was pioneering a
progressive approach to big band
music that made him a star. But
Kenton's popularity had waned
considerably by the time of Four
Classic Albums (ж ж ж Avid), which
captures the bandleader between
the years 1958-1960. Even so, the
set's quartet of albums - The Ballad
Style Of Stan Kenton, Standards In
Silhouette, The Romantic Approach
and Sophisticated Approach — show
that the bandleader was still pushing
the big band envelope and making
viable music.

The Kenton set includes a
widescreen version of Rodgers &
Hammerstein's immortal standard,
It Might As Well Be Spring, which
Benin-born guitarist LIONEL
LOUEKE also reworks but with a
pronounced African flavour on Close
Your Eyes (ж ж ж ж Sounderscore).
А trio collaboration with bassist
Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric
Harland, Loueke gives a welcome
new coat of paint to eleven jazz
evergreens, including tunes by
Monk, Miles and Coltrane.

Though singing standards has
been the forte of Grammy winning
singer extraordinaire KURT ELLING,
he shows a louche, funky side on
the terrific SuperBlue (*-x
Edition), which finds him creating
greasy, Steely Dan-esque grooves
with guitarist Charlie Hunter,
keyboardist DJ Harrison (from
Butcher Brown) and drummer Corey
Fonville. Witty original material sits
next to striking vocalese versions of
tunes by Wayne Shorter and Carla
Bley and a surprising Cody Chestnutt
cover. The killer cut is Circus, an
irresistible funk juggernaut over
which Elling narrates offbeat lyrics
penned by Тот Waits.

Three noted pianists drop new
albums this month. First up 15
the brilliant Japanese ivory tickler
HIROMI, renowned for her high-
velocity finger work. On Silver Lining

Suite (ж ж ж Concord), the first
album she's recorded in her native
country, her piano is augmented
on several tracks by the opulent
textures of string quartet. Arguably
the most impressive cut is a lone
piano piece called Uncertainty,
where Hiromi's mellifluous playing
displays a burnished lyricism.

In a more traditional vein 15
the elegantly tasteful Street Of
Dreams (ж жж Blue Note) by BILL
CHARLAP, who returns to Blue Note
after an 11-year hiatus with his long-
running trio consisting of
bassist Peter Washington and
drummer Kenny Washington. They
breeze through a collection of
standards and Jazz evergreens,
which includes a great take on Dave
Brubeck's The Duke.

Although CRAIG TABORN is
Charlap's compatriot, musically,
the Minneapolis-born pianist hails
from a different universe altogether.
Shadow Plays (жж Ж* Ж ECM),
recorded live in Vienna just before
the pandemic hit last year, is an
improvised exploration of noise,
silence, statis and movement
that captivates from the very first
bars. Taborn's ability to create
whole galaxies of mood, colour,
time and space is reinforced by
an exciting new conceptual work,
60 x Sixty. It's available to stream
free at https://6GOxsixty.com/ and
features 60 pieces, each sixty
seconds in length, which appear in a
randomised order with each press of
the play button.

Highly experimental, too, is a
new supergroup project featuring
MICHAEL WOLLNY, who's best
known for creating lush acoustic
piano pieces with romantic
overtones. Even so, he's never
been afraid to experiment to
stretch jazz's borders and on XXXX
(Ж * * ACT) he plays mainly
synthesisers alongside saxophonist
EMILE PARISIEN, bassist
TIM LEFEBVRE and drummer
CHRISTIAN LILLINGER. Edited and
sewn together from eight hours of
live improvised playing, the album
is a spellbinding agglomeration of

whirling sounds, textures
and rhythms.

Jazz drummers are also out
in force this month. JOHNATHAN
BLAKE, the former sticks man for
the Mingus Big Band and who more
recently drummed behind Dr. Lonnie
Smith, is renowned for his versatility
and makes his debut for Blue Note
with an accomplished post-bop
affair, Homeward Bound (ж %
Blue Note).

Blake's opus features the young
vibraphone sensation Joel Ross, who
also guests on an album by another
tub thumper, NATE SMITH. His star-
studded Kinfolk 2: See The Birds
(xx Edition) is a kaleidoscopic
mélange where jazz, hip-hop and
funk collide; its many contributors
range from violinist Regina Carter to
R&B singer Stokley and Living Colour
guitarist Vernon Reid.

Drums are also a prominent
feature of RUN LOGAN RUN,

a Bristol duo whose hypnotic
soundscapes are driven by the
swirling polyrhythmic currents of
dynamic sticksman Matt Brown
while his partner, Andrew Neil Hayes,
blows thundery saxophone squalls.
Despite the intensity of much of
their music, their debut platter For
A Brief Moment, We Could Smell
The Flowers (* Ж Ж Worm Discs)
also offer moments of serenity and
subtlety, showing that the duo are no
one-trick pony.

Still in Britain, THE ELLIOTT
HENSHAW BAND serves up an
engaging collection of jazz-funk
and fusion with Who'd Have
Guest? (ж ж Ж Ubuntu), featuring
cameos from the esteemed US
drummer Dave Weckl along with his
compatriot, saxophonist Bob Mintzer.

Out of a different bag is Inside
Out (ж ж ж hannahhorton.com) by
the UK's HANNAH HORTON, who
plays a mean baritone saxophone.
From funky grooves (Keep Walking)
to more explorative pieces (Surfing
Thermals) and ace covers (Jimmy
Rowles' The Peacocks), Horton
balances technical mastery with a
keen emotional intelligence. Jazz
singer lan Shaw guests on two cuts.

Jazz Butcher

Dr. Cholmondley

Repents: A-Sides,

B-Sides and Seasides

ЖЖЖЖ

Fire Fire 565 (4CD)

Eccentric indie-rocker's

output collected

At times, Pat

К ww Fish - who died
— in October —
А sounded like

Elvis in a pair

of itchy pants, at others a

marginally cheerier Lawrence

Hayward, but his eclectic

sensibilities were destined to

produce peculiarly charming

results. The single version

of Southern Mark Smith still

sounds great — like Suicide's

Cheree kidnapped by the

Television Personalities —

but if his tongue was often

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planted firmly in his cheek,
omnipresent was a zest, black
humour and inventiveness
rarely present in pop music
today. Real Men, with its
bouncy meandering xylophone
line, bears witness to that.
Alongside the 45s (highlights
include a fab take of The
Modern Lovers' Roadrunner)
this 4CD set contains their
flipsides, as well as remixes,
compilation tracks and a live
session recorded in 1989,
but the whole set could serve
as a one-stop history of 80s
indie music in one band.
Johnnie Johnstone

Antonio Carlos
Jobim

Tide

ЖЖ Ж Ж

Elemental Music 700160 (LP)

1 Brazilian
maestro's
sixth Bossa
nova supremo
PL... Jobim's
previous album, 196 /'s
Wave, Is regarded by many as
his magnum opus, though
1970's Tide isn't far behind
in terms of its quality. Both
LPs had a common
denominator in the shape of
uber producer Creed Taylor,
whose skill at finding
sympathetic arrangers and
the right supporting musicians
were key factors in bringing
Jobim's musical vision so
spectacularly to life. Tide’s
personnel ranges from
Jobim's compatriots Deodato,
Airto and Hermeto Pascoal to
American Jazzers Hubert Laws
and Ron Carter, who combine

their talents brilliantly.
Although the opener is an
offbeat version of Jobim's
biggest tune, The Girl From
Ipanema, the rest of the set's
eight songs were new, ranging
from the wistful title song to
the playful Remember.
Sublime. Charles Waring

John Mayall
Rolling With The
Blues — Live

ЖЖЖ

Indigo IGODD 004 (2CD)

Blues king rolls in a

new direction

A concert

Шы compilation,

known at

| various times
Een as [he Private

Collection and Rolling With

Ihe Blues — The Second

Decade, this samples seven
shows, 19/2-1982, from

the bluesmaster's archive.

It's anything but live filler,
chronicling Mayall's move

from early 60s Brit blues to
something more demanding —
the earliest 12 tracks feature
horns and the elegant guitar of
Freddie Robinson, mostly Albert
King sidemen, alongside early
Bluesbreaker drummer Keef
Hartley, all jazzy licks, wailing
harp and slap bass. Rockier is a
Bluesbreakers reunion with Mick
Taylor and, on Fleetwood Mac
sabbatical, John McVie, before
tracks featuring Taylor and the
rest of the band from his feted
Blues From Laurel Canyon.
Well over two hours of organic,
sometimes challenging, music
with jams topping 12 minutes.
Nick Dalton

Ihe Beat
Goes On

How Stax s illustrious house band
became stars in their own right.

By Lois Wilson

Booker T.
& Ihe MGs

The Complete Stax Singles

Vol. 1 (1962-1967)
Ж ЖЖЖ

Real Gone CDRGM 0889 (CD)

The Complete Stax Singles

Vol. 2 (1968-19 / 4)
ЖЖЖЖ

Real Gone RLGM 13091 РМІ (CD)

It’s 51 years since the classic line-up of Booker Т.
& The MGs - organist Booker T. Jones, guitarist
Steve Cropper, bassist Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and
drummer А! Jackson Jr — issued their final 45 on
the Stax label. Melting Pot brought together a
band that were frayed at the edges but who put
their all into the recording; a thrilling elision of jazz,
R&B and soul, it should have been huge. Instead,

it sank with little fanfare.

Nine years earlier, the group —
Lewie Steinberg instead of Dunn - had been
due to record a session on singer Billy Lee Riley.
When he didn't show, they got to work on a riff

with first bassist

Jones had been messing around with. Intended

as a flip, it quickly became their

entitled Green Onions, it not only launched their
own career as an instrumental unit but also gave
their label Stax its first US R&B No 1. Under normal
circumstances the group would have become their
label's flagship act. As Stax's engine room though,
their priority was to supply the backbeats behind
the label's other stars — Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd,
Carla Thomas, William Bell et al.
and 22 singles under their own volition then took

Leo Nocentelli
Another Side
Ж Ж ЖЖ

Light In The Attic LITA 191 (CD, LP)
Meters' guitarist's vanished
E um rematerialises
Miracles
do happen.
Just ask Leo
8| Nocentelli,

мене whose sinewy
dafar riffs gave the legendary
New Orleans group The Meters
their uniquely funky sound.
In the early 70s, he recorded
a solo album that was
stylistically far removed from
his Meters’ work but it got
shelved, forgotten, lost and
then, amazingly, turned up in
an auction of tapes recovered
from a New Orleans recording
studio flooded by Hurricane
Katrina. Nocentelli describes
it as his "country and western
album", but Another Side
proves to be more of a folky
but soulful acoustic singer-
songwriter album influenced
by Bill Withers and James
Taylor. Its highlights include
the bluesy Riverfront and

debut A-side and

Their 11 albums

chugging Till | Get There.
A jaw-dropping revelation.
Charles Waring

Paradise Lost

The Lost And
The Painless
Ж ЖЖЖ

Peaceville EBVILE 025
Extravagant re-issue of
шапа! Seon album
mm Cited as an
inspiration by

a diverse
swathe of
sux" рапа5, Paradise
ipat S эти album wasn't
so much the result of natural
evolution as simply a desire
to not record the same album
twice. The introduction of
keyboards and female vocals
to the metal group's sound
were evidence of that. Rather
than throw a party to celebrate
its 30th birthday, the band's
first label have pulled together
a sumptuous seven-disc set
which features, alongside

the album, some early
demos, Gothic's Peaceville
predecessor Lost Paradise,

the Gothic ЕР, two live discs
(Bradford and Liverpool,
1989, and Ludwigsburg,
1991), a DVD and a 92-
page book with a foreword by
Dani Filth. To complete the
celebrations Gothic itself will
also be re-issued on the same
day as a limited edition LP
and cassette. John lucker

Agustin Pereyra
Lucena Quartet
La Rana
ЖЖЖ Ж

Far Out FARO 227 (CD, LP)
The Argentine bossa
— s 1980 classic
катысы" | Captivated by
май g the sounds of
bossa nova
as a teenager,
46/521] Argentinian
guitarist Agustin Pereyra
Lucena spent a career
championing the genre
both his own country and
across Europe. Success in
Brazil proved limited but his
masterful playing drew rich
praise from legendary figures
Vinicius De Moraes and Baden

Booker T. & The
s: hitmakers
supreme

MG’

a back seat;
recorded under
less than ideal
circumstances,
knocked up over
weekends and put
down first thing on
a Monday before
their scheduled
work began.

Not that you'd
know listening
to The Complete
Stax Singles Vol.
1 (1962-1967)
апа Тһе Complete
Stax Singles Vol.
2 (1968-1974).
Instead, it feels very much like a masterclass in
feel and cool, the band coming together to ride
one soulful groove.

Their first 29 sides (all in their mono single
versions, as they should be) make up Vol. 1 and
are bookended by the aforesaid Green Onions and
the rather downbeat festive fare of Winter Snow,
written by Isaac Hayes and also featuring Hayes
on piano alongside the group. Hayes had actually
replaced Jones, who was away studying music at

the Indiana University, on 1965's Boot-Leg and
Jones would later cite this as the first chink in the
group's armour leading to their split. Boot-Leg
provided the group with their second hit and by
the end of 6/ they'd notched up a further two
R&B Top 10 placings with Hip-Hug-Her, their first
45 to feature Booker T on what would become his
trademark B3 Hammond organ, and a genius cover
of Young Rascal's Groovin'.

Vol. 2 collects their remaining 20 sides issued
on Stax - 15 in mono, 5 in stereo — and sees
the group reach new levels of sophistication;
Soul Limbo, aka the Test Match Special cricket
theme, incorporates reggae and calypso with
Hayes adding cowbell and piano and engineer
Terry Manning playing the marimba solo; covers
of Dominic Frontiere's Hang Ет High and The
Beatles' Something are reconfigured with the
Hammond taking centerstage. Then there's Time
Is Tight, taken from their soundtrack to the 1968

film Uptisht. Jones calls it his simplest song but its

they were imperial.

Powell. Recorded in Norway
during one of his European
stints, 1980's La Rana counts
as an ideal entry point into his
work. Unlike early recordings,
which tended to focus on his
intricate guitar technique,
Lucena's vocals here add
extra warmth to his playing

on sparkling covers of Ivan
Lins’ 3 Horas Da Manha and
Joao Donato’s The Frog (here
in its Spanish translation

of La Rana). Best of all 15
Lucena's own bossa-leaning
jazz fusion suite Encuentro De
Sombras, whose concluding
vocal melodies are as warmly
invigorating as the spring sun.
Paul Bowler

R.E.M.
New Adventures In Hi-Fi

ЖЖЖЖ

Craft 7226397 (2CD, 2CD/BD, 180g
2LP, 180g LP/clear 180g LP)
Georgia giants' road-made
10th turns 25

In another timeline, R.E.M.
would've split after recording
their last near-great album,
without any Bill Berry-less

appeal 15 undeniable.

By '/1, Jones and Cropper had left Stax,
Jones was in California; Cropper had his own
studio set up in Memphis. They'd reunite several
times again but as borne out on these releases,
it was as the original Booker T. And The MGs that

stumbles
towards 2011's
endgame.

| Written on
tour, 1996's
New Adventures... spotlights
a band still in motion,

forging their own routes
between mainstream and
alt-rock highways. While

Тһе Wake-Up Bomb revisits
Monster's stodgier lows,

the erupting choruses and
riffs of Departure, Undertow,
Bittersweet Me, Leave and
So Fast, So Numb summon
the stadium reach that album
failed to. There's grace, too,
in view-from-the-bus Patti
Smith duet, E-Bow The Letter,
and dreamy closer, Electrolite,
even if Binky The Doormat and
Zither suggest a band who
didn't know when to call halt.
Extras include instrumentals,
live cuts, remixes, covers (Vic
Chesnutt’s heart-wringing
Sponge) and a radically
re-envisioned Leave, now
sounding like a sad-eyed
farewell to the glory years.
Kevin Harley

Record Collector 105

From Ine Vaults

SOUL
COLLECTOR

By Lois Wilson

In early 2019, Alice Vines of the
Glorifying Vines Sisters booked 11
groups into a makeshift storefront
studio in downtown Fountain in
North Carolina and, over an intensive
eight-day period, captured the lar
Heel State's rich gospel wellspring.
The result was Sacred Soul Of
North Carolina (Ж Ж Ж Ж Bible &
Tire/ Music Maker Foundation), a
terrific snapshot brimful of affirmative
testifying and jubilant blessings. Тһе
Glorifying Vines Sisters, veterans of
over 40 years, provide one of many
rafter-raising high points with their
stirring Tell It All To Jesus. Vines’
heavenly voiced niece Melody Harper
delivers another with a spine tingling
a cappella take on Amazing Grace;
Faith & Harmony bring the rousing
and soulful We Will Work; Johnny
Ray Daniels and Bishop Albert
Harrison utilise the blues in their
worship on Somewhere To Lay My
Head and Shake Me respectively.
Not to be confused with the
1993 tribute of the same name from
shanachie, this People Get

Hippi HP

Ready: The Curtis Mayfield
Songbook (Ж Ж Ж Kent
gathers another batch of CURTIS
MAYFIELD readings from the vast
canon of covers out there. Spanning
1961-2010, from The Impressions'
Gypsy Woman, featuring Mayfield
himself of course, to Hard Times by
John Legend and Black Thought,
featuring The Roots, it's a superb
and varied collection, a reminder

at just what an inspirational force

he is and how his moral argument
still resonates. Tracks such as Jan
Bradley’s Behind The Curtains,
Gene Chandler’s Rainbow and Major
Lance’s Um Um Um Um Um Um put
a spotlight on his role in architecting
the 60s Chicago soul sound;
Aretha’s Look Into Your Heart and
The Staple Singers’ Let’s Do It Again
showcase his 705 soundtrack work;
the Miracles' cover of The Monkey
Time апа Тһе Jackson 5's take on
Man's Temptation show he'd made
an impact on Motown - Sisters Love
also covered Mayfield's Give Me
Your Love for Motown although it's
Barbara Mason's delicious Mayfield
produced take on the Superfly track
included here. The title track by
Dionne Warwick provides a means
for creative liberation as freed from
the pop constraints of Bacharach
and David, Warwick in Memphis"
American Sound with producer
Chips Moman is at her most soulful,
honest and best.

JACKIE WILSON's Five Classic
Albums (Ж Жс Ж Жс Avid R&B)
fanfares Мг Excitement's arrival with
1958 debut He's So Fine (key tracks
Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever
Want To Meet); Danny Boy; It's So
Fine), 1959's Lonely Teardrops (the
signature title), 1960's Jackie Sings
The Blues (Doggin' Around), the
same year's A Woman, A Lover, À

Friend (Am І The Man; Behind Тһе
omile Is A Tear); 1961's By Special
Request (Lonely Life; The Way | Am;
Try A Little Tenderness) over one
double-disc set.

Soul Superman/With A Dab
Of Soul (Жс Ж Ж Ж Kent) collects
The Hesitations’ Soul Superman
and Freddy Butler's With A Dab
Of Soul albums in their entirety
on one CD. Both albums are from
1967 and were originally issued on
Kapp Records. They were also the
brainchild of Pied Piper Productions
(Motown musicians Jack Ashford
and his business partner Shelly
Haims) and utilise to great effect
the Motown house band the Funk
Brothers and the songwriting team
of Ashford, Lorraine Chandler,

Joe Hunter, Mike Terry and Herbie
Williams. Both are also rare soul
holy grails, incredibly difficult to
find and fetching three figure sums
when you do.

The Hesitations are best known
for their soulful 1968 reading of
Born Free and began life in 1965
when on their peer and pal Edwin
Starr's advice, they left their
Cleveland, Ohio home base to
seek fortune in Detroit at Golden
World, the label which had signed
Starr. While it didn't work out with
Golden World, they did hook up
with Ashford, who put them in the
studio to record their debut album
Soul Superman, which under the
musical influence of the aforesaid
Starr, yielded their first R&B hit with
the captivating title track. The album
also includes such prime stuff as
Wait A Minute, ІІІ Be Right There,
Soul Kind Of Love and That's What
Love Is — the backing track of which
would be reused on Eddie Parker's
I'm Gone 45. The group split in
1968 when one of the group's

singers George "King" Scott was
shot and killed but a reconfigured
line-up reformed in 2006 and are
still working today.

Freddy Butler, meanwhile,
had a big voice with a smooth,
sophisticated style. He recorded a
batch of singles for M&M, Samo,
Starmaker and Wheelsville before
recording With A Dab Of Soul, his
only long player. Most of it is made
up of ballads, the kind that bring
the house down at the Copa, see
They Say I’m Afraid (Of Losing You)
and Just Because You ve Been Hurt.
But he was also adept at dramatic
dancers, borne out with /Os
northern soul classic spin
That's When І Need You, plus the
stirring whirlwind of I Fell In Love
(I Can't Help It).

The Hesitations' emotion
throbbing remake of Barbara
Mason's Yes I’m Ready provides
the jumping-off point on This Is
Lowrider Soul Vol 2 (ЖЖ Ж Ж
Kent), the brilliant follow-up to
2019's Vol 1. Lowrider soul refers
to the slow burning ballads that
originally soundtracked the Mexican-
American customised vintage car
scene and this selection is pure
vocal spectacle from start to finish
with scene staples The Manhattans,
The Larks and The Superbs also
contributing tracks.

WILLIAM BELL's The Man In
The Street - The Yellow Stax Solo
Singles A's And B's 1968-1974
(Ж Ж Ж Ж Kent) collates for the
first time on CD the Memphis singer
and songwriter's complete Yellow
Stax period which includes such
unquestionable classics as | Forgot
To Be Your Lover and My Whole
World Is Falling Down, the first co-
penned with Booker T. Jones, the
second with Bettye Crutcher.

The Replacements
Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take
Out The Trash (Deluxe
Edition)
ЖЖ №
Rhino 0603497843442 (4CD, LP)
Expanded edition of
Minneapolis rockers' debut
= Like their fellow
mW Minneapolitans
ww Husker Du, The
A Replacements
gradually
transcended their hardcore
roots to become college rock
darlings, without completely
abandoning their shambolic
edge. By the mid-80s, some
felt they had lost their mojo
and hankered for a return
to the snarl and mayhem
of their debut aloum. That
metamorphosis from Kiss
via Minor Threat into the
Big Star of the 80s hardly
followed a linear trajectory.
Right from the beginning,
there were glimpses of the
burgeoning sophistication of
Paul Westerberg's songwriting
- Johnny's Gonna Die still
sounds inspired — proving
that the Mats were more

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than just a motley crew of
barroom brawlers, but despite
some interesting curios here
(demos, out-takes, alternative
versions and live renditions),
a 100-track deluxe edition
still seems a little excessive.
Johnnie Johnstone

The Rolling Stones
Tattoo You

ЖЖ ЖЖ

Polydor 3835533(2CD, 4CD/LP, БІР)
An unexpected classic
turns 40

Тһе album that
introduced

the Stones to
the new-wave

| generation

in 1981, courtesy of single
start Me Up, has worn well
considering it was assembled
from /Os material. But a new
remaster 15 Just one ingredient
in a bewildering multi-format
offering. The 2CD deluxe
edition adds a nine-track
rarities selection, recently
worked up from unfinished
out-takes, while the following
year's Wembley concert,
released in part as Still Life,

makes up half of a ACD box
set. The collector's bait for
this is a 12” picture-disc LP
while a trio of vinyl offerings
offers variations on the digital
programme. A lenticular

(3D) sleeve and impressively
detailed 124-page book
round off a remarkably
satisfying Stones feast from a
supposealy lacklustre period.
Michael Heatley

Sepultura

Sepulnation — The Studio
Albums 1998-2009
ЖЖЖ Ж

BMG BMGCAT 511 ВОХ (5CD, 8LP)
Stonkingly heavy box set
For those

who thought
Brazil's most
celebrated
metal band
would fold when co-founder
Max Cavalera left in 1996, or
that whatever carried on would
be a pale facsimile, these

five albums are convincing
evidence that nothing could be
further from the truth. Hooking
up with frontman Derrick Leon
Green rejuvenated the band,

SEFUITURA
ey

and although Sepultura had
never shied away from punk
leanings, 1998's Against
saw them broadening their
horizons by adding a hint of
Green's hardcore background
to their arsenal. Sepulnation
then takes in Nation,
Roorback, Dante XX1 and
A-Lex, and for good measure
lobs in the Revolusongs EP:
10 covers from the obvious
(Exodus and Hellhammer) to
the more left-field (Devo and
Massive Attack). 11 years,
five albums, 83 cuts in all:

a neat re-introduction to the
band's second incarnation.
John Tucker

Slayer

Show No Mercy
kkk

Metal Blade cat no TBC

(CD, LP, cassette)

Haunting The Chapel EP
ЖЖЖЖ

Metal Blade cat по ТВС

(CD, LP, cassette)

Live Undead EP
ЖЖЖ

Metal Blade cat по ТВС
(CD, LP, cassette)

Hell Awaits

Ж ЖЖЖ

Metal Blade cat по ТВС

(CD, LP, cassette)

Pre-stardom thrash
classics exhumed

These two
albums and two
EPs by thrash
metal pioneers
Slayer all share
ridiculous artwork, childish
lyrics and bathtub-quality
production, but that is pretty
much why their appeal

has endured so long for

a generation of headbangers.
Between 1983 and '85,
before Rick Rubin spotted
them and made them famous,
Slayer tried their very hardest,
bless 'em, to write serious
songs about murder, warfare
and Satan. They were only
mildly successful at first,
debuting with the patchy Show
No Mercy in '83, but the two
EPs were well-received the
following year before they

hit an evil home run with

the pulverising Hell Awaits in
'85. The best songs of the
bunch - Haunting The Chapel,

Photo: Joel Bernstein

From first brushes with fame to
feted genius. By Jason Draper

Joni Mitchell Archives Vo
2: Тһе Reprise Years

(1968-1971)

Rhino 060349 /844524 (5CD, 10LP)

Covering a period associated with Joni
Mitchell's earliest successes — Both
sides, Now, Big Yellow Taxi, the Blue
album — Joni Mitchell Archives Vol 2
opens with a failure: a home demo of
Midnight Cowboy, a song she'd written for the
1969 Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight film of the same
name but which was rejected in favour of Nilsson's
take on Everybody's Talkin’. It's not hard to see
why — not over questions of quality, rather of
compatibility. As Mitchell proves time and again
across the live recordings and unreleased studio
sessions that here surround her first four albums,
Song То А Seagull (1968), Clouds (1969), Ladies
Of The Canyon (1970) and Blue (1971), she's
already working beyond simple plotlines that would
make it on the big screen. Rather, Mitchell is
dealing with capital-T Themes, capital-E Emotions
and capital-A Art in ways that test the bounds of
both narrative and songwriting.
Those themes were already apparent on Joni
Mitchell Archives Vol 1, which, though taking the
story only as far as 1967, found the fledgling

Joni Mitchell: delve —
into the outtakes of —
her imperial phase

songwriter shuffling a remarkable array of songs

that would fuel her early albums, just as soon

as she got to grips with how to arrange them.

A conversation with friend Jane Lurie, at whose
Manhattan apartment — formerly Mitchell’s own

— a number of early demos were recorded, offers
insight into her self-editing process. Discussing
what would become Clouds, she lists as many
songs that would make the record (The Circle
Game, The Fiddle And The Drum, Roses Blue) as
would not (Little Green, Jeremy, The Way It Is), the
sound of scribbled notes following her thoughts

as she explains how this new record “isn’t nearly
as personal an album as the last one... | just
suddenly don't want all those things to go out to so

many people."

Another failure. Eventually featuring songs
such as The Gallery and That Song About The
Midway, Clouds — and everything that followed —
only furthered the view of Mitchell, here clearly

Chemical Warfare, the live

version of Black Magic and the

monstrous Hell Awaits itself
— reveal just how much talent
and energy these four Orange
County kids had between

them, even at this early stage.

By 1986, Slayer were
signed to Rubin's Def Jam
label, and on the brink of
international notoriety with
their astonishingly violent
and era-defining third album
Reign In Blood, leaving the

Metal Blade era behind. These
charming but amateurish early

efforts, now reissued free of
extras on cassette, CD and
coloured vinyl, remind us
where they came from.

Joel Mclver

Small Faces
Live 1966

Nice NRLP 001 (CD, 2LP)

known live
recording of
the Small

m і Faces pillaging
a Belgium club at their
incendiary peak In January
1966 provides an auspicious
maiden voyage for sole
surviving member Jones’
new imprint drawn from his
personal archive. Designed to
trounce bootlegs and “use it
or lose it" shenanigans, the
release presents full matinee

This earliest

grappling with the early attention brought on by her
debut album and Judy Collins' hit cover of Both
oides, Now, as a songwriter whose experiences
inform every soul-baring lyric she entwined with
each of her complex guitar tunings. The apogee
of this, Blue, looms large over Archives Vol 2, as
Mitchell, graduating from Ontario coffee houses
to New York City's Camegie Hall on her way to
equally prestigious overseas appearances, finds
herself before a London audience, recording an
enrapturing BBC /n Concert performance just
months after living the events she would draw upon
for her watershed moment.
Mitchell has repeatedly spoken of how
vulnerable she felt while recording that album,
likening herself to "a clear cellophane bag of
exposed human organs". And yet her artistry had
never been so robust. As the earlier, more mournful
In Concert version of Carey shows, Mitchell would

and evening sets, including
recent hit What'cha Gonna Do
About It, unrecorded Strange,
James Brown's Please,
Please, Please, Plum Nellie's
riotous soul-blues medley and
new organist lan MacLagan
flashing jazz chops on Comin’
Home Baby. Marriott tearing
into Willie Dixon's You Need
Loving reveals the astonishing
blueprint for Robert

Plant's Whole Lotta Love
performance. Kris Needs

Spiritualized
Let It Come Down

Fat Possum FP17542/3 (CD, 2LP)

REV! EWS

dig deep in the studio to find a euphoric vocal

that causes the song to soar. Elsewhere across
this collection, her refining process leads her to
remove a pair of overly sentimental French horns
from River and, earlier, realise that adding cellos to
Ladies Of The Canyon's title track would have been
a step back into the baroque realms of the debut
album whose sound she found so unsatisfying.
Unassuming but prophetic is a home demo of
Roses Blue, overdubbed by Mitchell with taish goto
— or Japanese peacock harp — before that debut
had even hit the shelves. It's an experiment, for

sure, venturing into discordant accompaniments
the likes of which would be harnessed for the

new heights.

With his
band line-up
broken and
audience
expectations
rocketing, Jason Pierce
followed Ladies And
Gentlemen We Are Floating
In Space in the only manner
he could: by shooting for
the moon.

Featuring 100-plus
musicians, Spiritualized's
fourth album was dismissed
as top-heavy overload by
non-believers. But Pierce
was never an advocate
of the temperate, as The
Straight And The Narrow’s
lush, wry declaration of
acquiescence to appetite

increasingly jazz-inspired run of aloums the next
Archives instalment will surely focus on. For
Mitchell at this stage, then, nothing was ever truly
a failure, but more an opportunity to take her art to

reiterates. Let It Come Down
is the sound of a man in the
throes of an epic binge on
orchestral ambition, from
the Disney-on-drugs balladry
of Anything More to the
Space-walk swoon of Out Of
Sight. And if Won't Get To
Heaven (The State I'm In)
can't match Cop Shoot Cop’s
heady sprawl, the overhaul
of Spacemen 3 chemical
hosanna Lord Can You Hear
Ме is Pierce їп excelsis,
elevating you from the gut.
The final instalment in a

run of reissues for their first
four records, this 15, like its
predecessors, released with
new artwork and on double
180 gram vinyl. Kevin Harley

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"| wish | was Neil Young," lamented
Gibby Haynes in 1996. BUTTHOLE
SURFERS' front-maniac would've
preferred to be known for writing
"good songs", instead of sprinkling
acid on his cornflakes, stalking
К.Е.М. and being booted іп the groin
by a Bad Seed. As Frank Skinner
Said in the recent King Rocker
documentary, “everybody who has
mainstream success wishes they
were a cult hero, and every cult
hero wishes they had mainstream
success.” Ergo, Neil Young must

be jealous of the Buttholes. Who
can blame him’? The Texans’ first
four studio albums sound no less
delightfully strange than back in the
day. 198475 Psychic... Powerless...
Another Man's Sac (~ d
Latino Buggerveil) fuses gonzo
blues with ragged post-punk, thus

Vaults

Stereo Total War

Chanson Hystérique
1995-2005

Tapete TR 471 (ТР, CD)

| тат Stereo

NOW Total were
a connubial
pop duo who
made the world
a bdo: place, and this
extensive retrospective exudes
Joy and idiosyncrasy in equal
measure. Chanson Hystérique
tells the story of European
pop seen through the eyes
of a Berlin-based couple
with a penchant for Dadaist
mischief, sung variously in
French, English and German
(and sometimes all three).
They reanimate Gainsbourg,
computerise Nico, duet with
French underground legend
Jacno, and pay tribute to
Yoko Ono in typically zestful
fashion ("I Love You Oh No!”
by The Plastics becomes “|
Love You, Ono"). The only
thing that tempers the sheer
jouissance is the terrible news
that French singer Francoise
Cactus died earlier this year.
This box set is a fitting tribute
to a true one-off. Jeremy Allen

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Greatest Hits 2.0

Rhino 0603497843671 (21Р)

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that is because, as they began
with Eric Burdon leading (he'd
gone by 1971), they were
deemed too rock for the soul
community and vice versa.
This collection celebrates
their 50th anniversary by
expanding out their iconic

hit collection from 1976, by
including both earlier cuts (the
classic Burdon tracks Spill The
Wine and Tobacco Road are
here) and later ones, too (the
jazz-funk line-dance-inspiring
1978 UK Top 20 hit Galaxy
for example). Тһе title track

of Тһе World Is А Ghetto — the
best-selling album in the US
in 1973 — never fails to hit
the spot; social commentary
delivered sweetly. And, of
course, any collection with

Me And Baby Brother and
Low Rider on it can never
disappoint, which it doesn't.
Daryl Easlea

essentially birthing noise rock. The
mood becomes almost gothic in
parts of Rembrandt Pussyhorse
(Ж Latino Buggerveil),
on which extra textures are added
to the blueprint while The Guess
Who's American Woman 15 forced
through a mangle. The terrifying
clowns on the sleeve of Locust
Abortion Technician (
Latino Buggerveil) merely hint
at the interior dense and sludgy
descent into the bad trip dimension.
It's a classic. Hairway To Steven
( Latino Buggerveil),
from 1988, is a teensy bit more
accessible, although only in
comparison to the prior madness.
After recording one more album,
Butthole Surfers signed to a major
label, which is almost unbelievable.
Those who wish to avoid the
inessential cover versions, blues-
by-numbers originals and ambling
boogies might want to plump for a
STEPPENWOLF greatest hits. If you
fancy a deeper dive beneath Born To
Be Wild, then Magic Carpet Ride:
The Dunhill/ABC Years 1967-1971
( ` Esoteric) is the set for
you. All eight CDs of it. It compiles
the hard rockers' first six studio
albums, two live discs, plus bonus
tracks, with loads of detail in the
fancy booklet. Their political songs
are sometimes funny (Don't Step On
The Grass, Sam). Others are earnest
and angry (see 1969's Vietnam-
weary Monster). There may be some
dated AC/DC-ish gender attitudes
knocking about, but it's still hard to
resist the lacertian guitar licks of Ball
Crusher. Penned by their producer
and sung by the drummer, the lyrics
to 28 provide a certain respite from

War have

always had a
relatively low
profile in the
UK. Perhaps

|

а! those contemporaries who were
still singing about girls in their teens,
if you know what | mean.

Perhaps if they'd lasted longer,
Wembley's THE SYN might have
ended up in a similar place to
oteppenwolf. Instead, they split and
a couple of members went on to
form Yes. They packed quite a lot
in, mind, with their own residency at
the Marquee Club, supporting the
big names of the day and attracting
a following which included the one
and only Phil Collins. Padded out
with material from earlier and later
projects, The Selfs and Narsquijack,
Flowermen: Rare Blooms From
The Syn, 1965-69 (HH Grapefruit)
doesn't quite explain what so excited
young Collins. Still, you can hear
the potential in the often roughly
recorded psych-pop tomfoolery.

Reaching a baker's dozen
milestone is Brown Acid: The
Thirteenth Trip — Heavy Rock From
The Underground Comedown
( | RidingEasy). It seems
there is no end of nuggets for the
compilers of this series to unearth.
Highlights from the latest excavation
of mysterious riffers, howlers and
chooglers include Geyda whose Third
Side has the signature primeval
raggedness of their native Detroit.
The “comedown” in this edition's
subtitle is embodied most powerfully
on Feelin’ Dead by Master Danse:

a slow and bluesy scream of drug-
addled pain. Ominously, no follow-
up recording appeared. Similarly,
1973's incredible Indecision was the
only release credited to John Kitko.
It beggars belief that talent such as
this could seemingly vanish from the
face of the Earth.

Chad Ubovich plays with Ty
Segall in the appropriately named
Fuzz. He also fronts his own group,
MEATBODIES, whose 333 ( |
In The Red) is Ubovich's first record
since he burnt out on the road and
decided to get sober. The newfound
tee-totality has done little to dilute
Meatbodies' playfulness. There are
some heavy rockers here, especially
its opening track and the disease-
defying Cancer. Others have a folkier
kaleidoscopic lens. Nighttime Hidden
Faces is so steeped in the late-6Os
it verges оп Ween-esque parody.
Eye Eraser flirts with shoegaze.
Ubovich likens the album to “a scary
Magical Mystery Tour’. It isn't quite
that potent. But what is? (Correct
answer: Butthole Surfers.)

HOWLIN' RAIN are one of the
best bands from the 19 705 even
though they didn't form until 2004.
Don't worry if that makes them
sound derivative, because they do
it in such an accomplished way it's
often breath-taking. The Dharma
Wheel ( | Silver
Current) proves epic in every sense,
from its proggy artwork to the sonic
expanses (a six-minute Prelude;
half a dozen tracks totalling almost
an hour; a 16-minute "suite" about
a First World War soldier leaving
the mortal realm and returning
to particle matter...). Their BBQ-
friendly psych-prog-funk-jam-band
fusions are richer than ever before,
bolstered this time by appearances
from violinist Scarlet Rivera, best
known for playing with Bob Dylan,
and boogiesome keyboards courtesy
of Black Crowes associate Adam
MacDougall. Never did such cult
heroes deserve to be mainstream.

Jj

REVIEWS

The Pop Group: the
new version of their
debut works brilliantly

Dub Thumpin

Post-punk masterpiece bent into
brilliant new shapes.
By David Quantick

The Pop Group &

Dennis Bovell MBE

Y In Dub
ЖЖЖЖ

Mute TPGYD 1 С (CD, 21Р, cassette)

When Тһе Pop Group's Y came out in 1979,

it was somewhat ahead of its time: post-punk
acts were still outnumbered by chunko punk and
skinny-tie new wave and the notion of combining
free jazz and funk with punk
attitudes would only become

hip when people from New York
started doing it in 1981. After
Y's release, The Pop Group left
Radar Records (home of Elvis
Costello and The Yachts) for
Rough Trade and eventually split
into the avant-jazz Rip Rig And
Panic, the chart-bothering Pigbag
and the titan of megaphone dub,
Mark Stewart.

Over the years, however, Y's
brilliance has been noted and
acknowledged more and more.
Its sound — one of the first "rock"
productions by Dennis Bovell
(whose MBE must surely be for
recording The Slits, writing Silly
Games and being in Matumbi, as well as making
this album), Y is an extraordinary album, Nietszche
filtered through Sun Ra, punk and funk and a
wildness lacking from almost any other music of
the time. By the time they were on Rough Trade,
the climate had changed and everyone from
Defunkt to A Certain Ratio was mixing jazz and

else now. It's a haunted house of a record, rooms
echoing with angry whispers and sudden shouts.
And that's just the original version.

Forty-two years after the album's original
release, Dennis Bovell has made a dub version of
Y, a record that already sounds like a dub mix of
a very scary beast living in a basement. It sounds
like an odd idea on paper, like turning something
inside out that's already pretty much inside out.
But it works, brilliantly. Sometimes it's a new way
of hearing the old — Thief Of Fire works very well in
its new shape — sometimes it's exciting (that riff on
she Is Beyond Good And Evil is Hendrix in dub with
added toasting) and sometimes it's terrifying: the
version of Boys From Brazil here is a horror story
in sound. At a time when heritage remixes infest
the boxed-set charts just so we can all hear one
of The Beatles breathe in and out, Y /n Dub is a
remarkable achievement, adding a new layer to an
old record in a unique way. It's great.

punk and funk, but
this was early 1979
and Blondie's Heart
Of Glass was the
sort of thing the
kids liked.

Y stood out then
and it stands out
now: there are shreds
of new wave riffs on
Thief Of Fire and We
Are Time, but nothing
you'd mistake for The
Jags. There are shards of funk on the immense
she Is Beyond Good And Evil, but that single would
be more comfortable on There's A Riot Goin' On
than the Kid Jensen show. Most of Y sounds like
what it is: spiky riffs, cobwebs, sudden bursts of
noise and half-heard ghost piano. It sounded like
nothing else at the time and it sounds like nothing

Warda mellifluous voice acts as a otyle Council, typical of the an exquisite thing — often overdue re-
Ahalik Непа fluid instrument throughout, soulful mood, furthered taking another's track out of excavation of
X Ж е ч wrapping itself round the on the spiritual lyricism of obscurity and into the charts | the late, Fife-
Wewantsounds WWSLP 52 (LP) swelling orchestration All Good Books. Even the and hearts. Тһе version born singer-
Algerian singer's like flowing water as she politically nihilist A Bullet in reggae, of course, has songwriter

Jackie Leven's music
continues. Following on from
Glasgow label Night School's
recent "best of" and ahead
of a planned re-release
programme by label Cooking
Vinyl in 2022, the same label

switches between moods of
dark pathos and soothing
calmness. Heady and
bewitching stuff. Paul Bowler

Paul Weller
Days Of Speed

For Everyone is more
Marvin Gaye than The
Jam. Illumination followed
Weller's second solo live
album the year before.
Playing entirely solo, Days
Of Speed has a hushed

been integral to the music's
development. DJ guru Don
Letts brings his requisite
experience and touch of class
to the Late Night Tales series
with this beautiful selection.
From grandees such as John

Arabic classic
Wewantsounds
have arguably
done more
than anyone

B uui to generate
the current wave of interest

Photo: Chiara Meattelli and Dominic Lee

in Middle Eastern music, kkk intimacy, even if some Holt and Тһе Tamlins to the has gathered some impressive
reissuing classic recordings Craft CR 00204 (LP, 2LP) songs don't suit the setting. more recent Prince Fatty and names for The Wanderer,

by such hallowed figures as Illumination John Earls Khruangbin, this is a joyful a tribute collection that

Fairuz, Omar El Shariyi and Ж Ж ЖЖ sound; while some Late Night ^ perfectly hits the sweet

Ziad Rahbani. Perhaps mindful
of the public's increasing
exposure to the style, their
latest reissue is the most
traditional in approach so far.
There are no funk, disco, or
bossa adjuncts on this 1973
live outing by Algerian singer
Warda Al Jazairia. Recorded

in Egypt on the comeback

trail after a 10-year hiatus,
she was armed with songs
written by legendary composer
(and husband) Baligh Hamdi.
Backed by a full-Egyptian
orchestra of strings and
percussion she delivers a

set bristling with drama and
hypnotic beauty. Warda’s

CR 00205 (LP, 2LP)
Modfather’s neglected early
century releases revisited
Culminating
in the writers’
block that
forced 200475
meee covers album
Studio 150, Paul Weller
has briefed against his early
2000s music, saying it was
the best he could do rather
than essential. If it’s not as
electrifying as As 15 Now,
which reignited his output,
2002's Illumination is still
classy. It's Written In The
Stars is possibly Weller's
best mellow groove since The

VARIOUS
ARTISTS

Late Night Tales
Presents Version
Excursion

oelected By Don Letts
ЖЖЖ Ж

Late Night Tales ALNLP 64 (21Р)
If you buy only one
reggae covers album,
make it this

In the right
hands, a
well-chosen
cover has
always been

Tales dwell on the melancholy,
Version Excursion 15 mellow
and optimistic. The inclusion
of Black Box Recorder's
Uptown Тор Ranking is a lovely
touch, too, Sarah Nixey's
blank home counties voice
very much at odds with soulful
shouters here. Daryl Easlea

The Wanderer:

A Tribute To

Jackie Leven

Ж ЖЖЖ

Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 803 (2CD)
The late, great Fife singer-
songwriter is paid tribute to
by peers and admirers

The relentless and long-

spot between the original
mood of the music and the
Interpreter's style. Ralph
McTell and Graham Preskett's
сіск Harbour Lament is
sonorously Leven-like,

but Eliza Carthy brings an
agonised holler to The Garden,
there's a raw post-punk
ferocity to the Membranes'
More Than Human, and

a sparse folk tenderness fills
Kathryn Williams' The Crazy
song and James Yorkston's
Empty in Soho Square. Here
on two discs, the vinyl version
Will follow, due for Record
Store Day release.

David Pollock

Record Collector 209

New Albums

Fantastic Voyage

Jazz-tinged comforts from indie-rock s most
reassuring crew. By Shaun Curran

Elbow
Flying Dream 1
ЖЖЖЖ

Polydor 3578474 (CD, LP)

If ever a band were going to carve out a positive
amid pandemic-induced despair, it was likely

to be Elbow. The Bury quartet have spent two-
decades-plus painting silver linings onto their
wounded northern heart sensibilities: their emotive,
anthemic indie-rock and tender ballads, award-
winning and arena-filling, could induce a tear, but
often came with a reassuring hug.

It's therefore fitting that Elbow's ninth album
was recorded at the Grade II listed Brighton
Theatre Royal, only possible because it was left
empty during lockdown
restrictions. Spying
an opportunity to
shake up their creative
process, singer Guy
Garvey convened the
band on the south
coast after collating
the "love notes” —
sketches of music
sent between band members which Garvey says
revealed their mental state — that were written
remotely during the disorientation of the early
pandemic weeks.

Again produced by keyboardist Craig Potter,
Flying Dream 1 discards the grittier, proggier sound
of last album Giants Of All Sizes, but doesn't fall
back on the sort of epic dynamism that people
most associate with Elbow either. Inspired by
whole texts like Van Morrison's Astral! Weeks and
John Martyn's Solid Air, this is Elbow at their most
reflective and restrained. Yet rather than clipping
their own wings, this subtle undercutting of their
big-hearted sound leaves a quiet beauty, a set of
songs that, aside from the upbeat, jagged organ
motif of soaring final track What Am | Without You,
are left to breathe organically and unfold at

Q&A

Elbow frontman Guy
Garvey on how he wanted
to make a record stripped
of the group's usual
dramatic sweeps...

Can you explain about the "love notes" that
became the basis of the record?

At the start of lockdown, we were as bewildered as
everyone else, punch drunk 24/7. Га get pieces

of music from the lads that would basically tell me
how they were coping. Pete [Turner] sent Calm And
Happy, this cold, haunting, empty piece looking for
a glimmer of light chorus, so | knew he was happy
to be with his family, but shaky and in need of a
squeeze. Mark [Potter]’s stuff was really upbeat and
sunshiney. And then Craig [Potter] sent this frenetic
organ line — | was like, "Alright, Craig's gone a bit

110 Record Collector

“This is Elbow at
their most reflective
and restrained |

the memory of the
titular character,

the most bittersweet

turned upheaval into

a gentle pace.

Guitars are largely backgrounded in favour
of piano lines, shuffling drum patterns, organs,
mellotrons and soothing backing vocals courtesy
of London Contemporary Voices. The use of
double bass and flourishes of clarinet and
Saxophone give a lowkey jazzy feel throughout,
particularly to the title track and spacious Is It

A Bird; the vaguely-psychy whirl of Red Sky Radio

is a would-be anthem that has been reined in to
maintain equilibrium.
Lyrically, there is a return to more familiar

territory after Giants Of All Sizes saw a grieving

Garvey in atypically agitated distress. The power
and redemption of love and scenes of domestic
bliss (including playing Team Sonic Racing with

his young son) dominate, though there are eye-
catching diversions. The twinkling eeriness of Calm
And Happy summons
the “dark and bitter
days” of Garvey’s
mid-80s Thatcher-
thwarted childhood,
complete with reference
to Brookside's Sue
Johnston; The Seldom
seen Kid draws a
line back to Elbow's
2008 breakthrough
album, resurrecting

Bryan Glancy, with a
gorgeous woodwind
arrangement where
Garvey imagines the
bond that would have
developed between
Glancy and his wife
had they ever met. It's

of silver linings on
a record that has

something beautiful.

mad." They all bought dogs in lockdown, so they
definitely went a bit mad.

You've said you wanted to show your quieter
side across a whole piece, inspired by albums
such as Solid Air and Astral Weeks?

We love those kinds of records and always have. It's
very unusual to start out with an idea and it ends up
being that thing. We wanted one tone, something
lovely, not the usual dramatic stuff that we do,

just something you put on and listen to all the way
through.

Why did you decide to record the album at the
Brighton Theatre Royal?

| was thinking, how do І flip this on its head? Where
could we only record under these circumstances,

and tum Covid into an opportunity as opposed to an
eternal failing? We did something special that rooted
the album in these times. Тһе sound of the theatre is
a huge character on the record. Although when | was
visualising it in my head, | was thinking this Is going

to be a completely new and unique experience. Then
when | got there, | was like, “soundcheck!”

There's a real jazz element to the album...

It was a conscious thing. Because we were thinking
about Solid Air and Joni Mitchell's early stuff,
borrowing the jazz aesthetic without having that kind
of technical ability was really appealing. We wanted
to make something a little bit less indie, have some
faded glory to it, something that reflected where we
were recording.

The Seldom Seen Kid links back to your 2008 LP,
and the death of your friend Bryan Glancy.

| think the first person you lose fashions you a grief
box. And they live in it. And when you lose people
subsequently you open that box again. But it's the
same box. And mine is called Bryan Glancy. And
losing people recently got me thinking about Bryan.
Even though it was 2006 when he died, it's alright to
miss somebody for the rest of your days.

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New Albums

Captains Of Industry 2

Punk quintet change gear on album four.

By Chris Catchpole

IDLES
Crawler

ЖЖЖЖ

Partisan РТКЕЗ014 (CD, LP)

The last album by IDLES, last year's Ultra
Mono, saw the Bristol-based punk quintet
double down on their qualities as a band
almost to the point of self-parody. Bullish,
political and shouty, like the group's name it
was a record that spelt out its messages in
capital letters.

Coming just over a year later, their fourth
record Crawler swerves in the opposite
direction, shaking off much of what people
have come to expect from one of the
breakthrough British groups of the past few
years. Over 14 bruising tracks, there's no sign
of frontman Joe Talbot's unambiguously right-
on polemic, not much humour and little in the
way of festival-ready shoutalongs.

It also might be the band's most satisfying
collection of songs to date. Using a startling
metaphor of a near-fatal car accident — portrayed in
the taillight-lit horror show of opener MTT 420 RR -
Crawler examines Talbot's history of drug and alcohol
addiction and his eventual road to recovery with brutal
frankness. The Wheel opens with the stark image of
the singer on his knees, begging his alcoholic mother
to quit drinking before succumbing to his own chemical
temptations. Over a piledriving assault of drums and
guitar, the chorus line, "Can | get a hallelujah! Hear
it for the users!" feels bitterly ironic to the point of
nihilism. The claustrophobic dissonance of Car Crash,
meanwhile, provides as bleak an image of someone at
the depths of rock bottom as you're likely to get from

IDLES frontman Joe
Talbot on why Crawler is
the sound of his band
starting again.

Ultra Mono felt like it was 'IDLES concentrate'
in a way. Did that inform a shift in direction for
this album?

We started that journey before we released Ultra
Mono. We'd come to an understanding of our
self-awareness as an entity, artistically and within

CRAWLER

a band whose last
LP topped the UK
album charts.
Given the

subject matter, Crawler makes for an uncomfortable,
even grim, listen at times — Wizz, for example, is a
30-second burst of ear-splitting grindcore over which
Talbot barks out text messages from his ex-drug
dealer — but the band respond with acres more depth
and sonic richness than they've displayed on record
before. Meds bounces squawking, free jazz saxophone
against angular shards of post-punk guitar, while in its
Bauhaus-like lurch When The Lights Go On recreates
the darkness of completely losing contro! so well you
can almost feel the room spinning.

It's telling that two of the best tracks here don't
really resemble IDLES at all. The Beachland Ballroom

the populace, of the caricature of IDLES that had
come to the surface. We decided to make an
album, Ultra Mono, as IDLES as possible. That was
the point of Ultra Mono, to build an effigy that we
could then burn and kill and start again. Crawler is
us starting again.

How did the pandemic affect how you
approached the record?

We weren't going to start again so quickly, because
we were going to be doing two years of world
tours, but obviously Covid allowed us the time and
the grace period to reflect. The whole album is a
reflection: musically and lyrically, іп that we got to
really dig deep into what we are fascinated by and

is the unlikely sound of the band trying their hand at
girl group soul (albeit in a clanking death march that
makes The Jesus And Mary Chain come across like
The Archies) and Progress transports them closer to
experimental electronica. It's an enormous, shuddering
Starship of a track inspired by cutting edge such as
producers Arca and the late SOPHIE in which Talbot
sounds like he’s being beamed in from a parallel
universe of suffering.

Over just three aloums in as many years, IDLES
pushed their initial M.O. to its logical conclusion.
Crawler is the sound of IDLES mk2. It might not be as
immediate, but there's a newfound nuance and scope
within the darkness here. As The End clatters to its
conclusion with Talbot howling, "In spite of it all, life is
beautiful." IDLES' message is still, ultimately, one of
hope. Тһе road forward feels wide open.

what we love in music.

There's much more depth and scope to the
music than on previous IDLES albums. On The
Beachland Ballroom you even have a go at Phil
Spector-style pop...

The reason this album has a dark warmth and a
depth to it is because we were looking into that,
why we love soul music so much, why 505 pop
has a sense of ominous darkness to it as well as a
bright sheen. So we worked on its depth because
of that reflection period. And obviously, lyrically it's
a reflection on my recovery and the moments that
defined it. It's not just about that.

As told to Chris Catchpole

Courtney Barnett
Things Take Time, Take
Time

Ж ЖЖ

Marathon Artists МА 0310

(CD, LP, Cassette)

Melbourne indie star sets
her own pace

eased off the pedal, turning
to homefront concerns.

Тһе result is an album both
granular and gracious, lifted
by a breezy whatever-will-be
spirit. Sunfair Sundown and
Here's The Thing surf the
waves of day-to-day living
with unforced melodic ease,
while Turning Green issues
notes of friendly reassurance
to a lulling Krautrock pulse. If
the sharper edges of earlier
Barnett albums are softened,
the trade-off is an appealing
fluency best heard on If |
Don't Hear From You lonight,
a love song that nails Things
Take Time, Take Time's

A reflection on
societal change
turns into a lyric
about changing
the sheets on
Rae Street, the suggestive
opener for Courtney Barnett's
micro-focused third album.
Tired after 2018's Tell Me
How You Really Feel, the
Australian singer-songwriter

112 Record Collector

virtues at a stroke: amiable,
infectious and pleasingly
unhurried. Kevin Harley

Tony Bennett and
Lady Gaga
Love For Sale

ЖЖЖЖ

Columbia/Interscope B 003318601
(CD/2CD, 2LP)
Legendary crooner teams
up with pop superstar

"| Though he's
95 and batting
Alzheimer's,
Bennett can
still sing the
Great American Songbook
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alive. To bring the curtain
down on his storied career,
he's reunited with his 2014
collaborator Gaga to record
this tribute to songwriter Cole
Porter. Despite his current
health concerns, Bennett can
still navigate the subtleties of
the jazz standard repertoire
with an imperious aplomb
and has a sympathetic co-
pilot in Gaga, who, despite
being 60 years his junior, is
perfectly tuned in to the old
master's wavelength. They do
a couple of solo songs each
but the standouts are their
duets together, especially the
swinging big band numbers

Its De-Lovely, I’ve Got You
Under My Skin and You're
Тһе Тор, which crackle with a
lively, conversational interplay.
A De-Lovely way to cap a
glorious career. Charles Waring

Caravan
Its None Of Your
Business

ЖЖЖ

Madfish SMACD 1212 (CD, LP)
Pop or prog? Canterbury
сото | at a crossroads

The acclaim
accorded their
recent career-
spanning

box set has

Photos: (IDLES) Tom Ham; (Efterklang) Dennis Morton

inspired the venerable group's
first new music for eight
years. Founder guitarist Pye
Hastings and long-serving
multi-instrumentalist Geoff
Richardson lead a new line-
up through 10 tracks that
tick many boxes without
threatening the iconic status
of 705 classics such as In The
Land Of Grey And Pink.

While the title track and
1 Reach Out For You both
touch nine minutes, a surfeit
of shorter soft-rock ditties
like If | Was To Fly overwhelm
these attempts to recapture
Caravan's organ-laced
progressive past. That said,
one concise gem tucked away
at the end, There Is You,
features eloquent piano from
Jan Schelhaas — an ingredient
that could have been made
much more of.
Michael Heatley

Chelsea Carmichael

The River Doesn't Like
Strangers

Ж ЖЖЖ

Native Rebel Recordings NRR 0001
LP (CD, LP)

A new jazz saxophone
"- 15 born

Warrington
isn't renowned
for its jazz
affiliations
sss but it’s the
НЕТЕТ of Chelsea
Carmichael, a young British
tenor saxophonist. On the
evidence of this compelling
debut for Shabaka Hutchings'
new label Native Rebel, she
seems poised to take the
Jazz world by storm. The
River Doesn't Like Strangers
takes us into a sonic world
that has both beauty and
toughness, elegance and
grit. The super-infectious
Bone And Soil, where David
Okumu's diaphanous, effects-
laden guitar chords underpin
Carmichael's dancing
melodies, is gorgeously poetic,
but on leaner cuts like the fast
and furious Myriad and the
lurching, dub-infused All We
Know, where the saxophonist
spectacularly duels with
Okumu, show an unflinching
visceral ruggedness. As debuts
go, this is an astonishing tour
de force. Charles Waring

Eric Clapton
The Lady In The Balcony:
Lockdown Sessions
kkk
Mercury Studios 38/1152
(CD/CD/DVD/CD/Bluray, LP)
Blues guitar veteran's
mmu nostalgia

- A live album
and DVD,
this set came
together during
lockdown
in a Sussex mansion with
only Clappo's good lady wife
watching, hench the title. With

a three-piece band (including
Chris Stainton on keyboards
and Steve Gadd on drums)
it's verging on the unplugged,
although Slowhand gets the
electric out for three of the
17 tracks.

It's a touching, sometimes
sad but always enthralling
journey through a pre-Covid
lifetime. Derek And The
Dominos are well represented
by Layla, of course, one of
four including a rocking Key
To The Highway. But there's
also a double salute to Peter
Green, notably an exquisite
Man Of The World. From the
heartbreak of Tears In Heaven
to the growling riffs of the Got
My Mojo Working finale it's a
understated delight. Comes
in a raft of audio, visual and
book formats. Nick Dalton

Clinic

Fantasy Island

ЖЖЖЖ

Domino WIGCD 486 (CD, LP)

The future is a trip on
North-west wonders' ninth
After the

f Os-themed
japes of
Wheeltappers

| =| And Shunters,
Livermaor s masked seers

of psych-garage art-punk
dream of how the future
looked from that vintage
vantage point on their ninth.
The Lamplighter heralds a
deliciously tripped-out album
of lysergic lounge grooves
and space-age swamp blues,
its utopian visions seemingly
dispatched from a K-hole.
The retro-futurist delights and
Gollum-esque insinuations

of Refractions (In The Rain)
evoke Jarvis Cocker fronting
The Human League at a
Sheffield swingers' party. Fine
Dining's Kraftwerk-ian twinkle,
Fantasy Island's panic-stricken
disco inferno and On The
Other Side...'s John Barry-
on-a-downer smooch match
it for dread and playfulness,
prescribed in well-apportioned
doses. Meanwhile, a cover of
Ann Peebles' | Can't Stand
The Rain teeters nervously
between medicated and
menacing, upholding Clinic's
flair for experimental pop
incisions with typically singular
wit and precision. Kevin Harley

Ducks Ltd.

Modern Fiction

kkk

Carpark Records CAK 158 (CD, LP)
Canadian indie-pop duo
"UD acclaimed debut
л The second

= album from
Toronto pair
Tom McGreevy
and Evan Lewis
sees the duo
channel their plentiful C86-
era influences and emerge
with a record that is more

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than the sum of its parts. А
love of Flying Nun is evident
throughout (anoraks will

nod furiously at hints of The
Clean, The Chills and Look
Blue Go Purple) with plenty
of Felt, TV Personalities

and even Wedding Present
(see opener How Lonely

Are You?). However, Ducks
Ltd. aren't just a Dunedin
tribute act. While the jangles
and harmonies might be
genuinely uplifting, lyrics paint
a different picture examining
societal decline and personal
despair in a style recalling
equally twee pop intellectuals
McCarthy. True, Modern
Fiction might sound old at
times but this is definitely one
for the future. Mike Goldsmith

Efterklang
Windflowers

City Slang Slang 50366 Z (CD, LP)
Stripped-back refresh for
atmospheric Danish trio

— 94 A sense of
new beginning
pervades
-| Danish
Е 2*4 three-piece
Efterklang's s sixth album,
from the spring-blooming
forest flowers of its title, to
their recent signing to City
Slang after a fruitful period
with 4AD, to the lockdown-
enforced minimalism of
the musical arrangements.
The group has shifted focus
from the expansive, multi-
instrumental mood pieces of
their previous work to make
Casper Clausen’s lead vocal
the focus of many of these
pieces. Blending the anthemic
qualities of Coldplay's Chris
Martin and the ethereal air
of Sigur Ros’ Jónsi, his voice
captures a sense of endless
love and loss on the striking
piano ballad Hold Me Close
When You Can and takes his
band into quirky pop territory
on Dragonfly and Living Other
Lives. The Field adds out-there
electronics to the epic closer
Abent Sar. David Pollock

Gov't Mule

Heavy Load Blues
ЖЖЖЖ

Fantasy Records 7228714

(CD/2CD, LP)

US rockers get the blues
The lavish
rendition of
Bobby Bland's
Ain't No Love
In The Heart

Of The City sets the tone for
Gov't Mule’s first wholly blues-
orientated album. Taut and
evocative, Heavy Load Blues
is infused with a joyous groove
and a reliance on authenticity,
with founder member Warren
Haynes’ originals comfortably
rubbing shoulders with covers
from the likes of Elmore
James and Tom Waits. There’s

Efterklang:
great Danes

no urgency here, with many
of the cuts languidly breaking
the five-minute mark, and

the musicianship is, naturally,
exceptional, as perhaps best
exemplified by the nine-plus
minutes of Howlin’ Wolf’s |
Asked Her For Water (She
Gave Me Gasoline). The
double CD offers bonus tracks
and it's worth noting that the
band recorded this and a
more traditional Gov't Mule
offering simultaneously, so
their next release shouldn't be
too long in coming.

John Tucker

Hand Habits
Fun House

ЖЖЖЖ

Saddle Creek LBJ 326 (CD, LP)
US singer-songwriter hits
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ЖӘН — S94 electronica with
a беш чачы pop instinct,
Fun House 15 an album
dripping with confidence, most
manifestly on the exquisite
Clean Air, which soars with as
much confidence as The Only
Living Boy In New York. With
twinkling pop (Aquamarine),
heartrending string-soaked
melancholia (False Start),
spartan folk (Graves) and
disembodied country (Just
To Hear You - a duet with
Perfume Genius' Mike
Hadreas) - it moves beyond
the ambient Americana of the
first two albums, revealing
greater depth and variety to
Meg Duffy's songwriting. But
what lends the album its real
strength is the union of Duffy's
beguilingly unaffected vocals
with Sasami's sympathetic
slow-release production.
Who knows, with a bit of
luck this could be a surprise
commercial breakthrough.
Johnnie Johnstone

Elton John
The Lockdown Sessions

ЖЖ Ж

ЕМІ ЕМІУ 2051 (CD, 21Р)
Captain Fantastic and
trusty lieutenants
ПОЗ Beset with
further delays
to his Farewell
Yellow Brick
Zum Road tour
that mean he'll be saying
goodbye well into 2023,

Elton busied himself at home
collating previously recorded
collaborations and inviting
new guests to join him (albeit
largely remotely). It's almost
inevitably a hit-and-miss
affair, but when the stars
align it results in some
intriguing work.

Тһе hook-up with Olly
Alexander of Years & Years
on the Pet Shop Boys’ It’s A
Sin, previewed at this year’s
Brit Awards ceremony, Is
a dramatic highlight, while
Stevie Wonder's presence on
Finish Line paints a majestic
portrait of two legends letting
loose. Saddling up with
comparative youngsters such
as Dua Lipa and Nicki Minaj
results In awkward numbers
a little out-of-step, so it's left
to the late Glen Campbell
to close proceedings with
grandeur on I'm Not Gonna
Miss You. Terry Staunton

Lonely Guest
Lonely Guest

ЖЖЖЖ

ІКТ К75 408 (СР, ІР)
Tricky unveils his lockdown
project

Always in
motion, always
iati unmistakeable,
DEDE Tricky adopts
НИН a new alias for
this са нагайуе set. While
2020's Fall To Pieces looked
inwards following the tragic
death of his daughter, Lonely
Guest is a sinuous, stealthy
album of controlled outreach,
supple yet tightly steered.
With just sickly music-box
tinkles, cello and Marta
Zlakowska's restrained

voice, the title track sets the
minimalist mood, sustained as
Marta joins Tricky and IDLES’
frontman Joe Talbot for the riff
dirge and whispered enigmas
of Pre War Tension. Off-map
detours take in swirling trip-
hop (Under), rapid-fire grime
(On A Move) and murky dub
(Atmosphere) elsewhere, with
guests including Oh Land,
Kway and the late, great Lee
"ocratch" Perry. Meanwhile,
with Maximo Park's Paul Smith
guesting on vocals, album
Standout Christmas Trees
issues mournful, nervy notes
from the “edge of town”:
unsettling, affecting evidence
of a tireless maverick on

fine, febrile form.

Kevin Harley

Record Collector 113

New Albums

Spring Break

Blur and Gorillaz leader takes a

contemplative pitstop on second solo

album. By Jason Draper

Damon Albarn

Тһе Nearer The
Fountain, More Pure
The Stream Flows
ЖЖЖ

Transgressive TRANS 551 CD (CD, LP/2LP, Cassette)

With nearly 30 years' distance from Britpop
and the mania surrounding it, it seems
ridiculous to think that Damon Album was
once the poster boy for a type of bratty
braggadocio that soundtracked Club 18-
30 holidays and spilled over into scraps in
the press. Gorillaz remains an outlet for his more
fevered impulses. Yet even that freewheeling project
finds space for the sort of melancholic introspection
which, on early Blur songs such as This Is A Low
and Badhead, was once suspiciously eyed as a
different type of posturing, but now, with the likes
of Blur's 13 and The Good, The Bad & The Queen's
debut album long under his belt, seems to be the
true wellspring of Albarn's creativity.

The acknowledged mastermind of the majority
of works he attaches his name to, The Nearer
The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows is,
improbably, only the second Albarn solo album
proper in a career that's at 27 studio outings and
counting. Clearly, the music and melodies pour out
of him with ease, and The Nearer The Fountain...
rolls along like a gently free-flowing brook, as if
winding its way through fissures in the psyche
(Albarn says he has been on "my own dark journey
while making this record"). Built on undulating

Damon Albarn:
he'll mullet over

electronics and Simon

Tong's mournful

guitar tremolos, and
haunted by wordless
female vocals that trail Albarn's own cracked voice,
the opening title track, and much of what follows,
sounds as fragile as anything he's ever recorded
— indeed, often too fragile to fully form, as if the
songs were scared of themselves and what may
happen if they tried to harden into something that
could be held.

Like weather patterns shifting across the
Icelandic landscape that inspired much of the
album, which began life as a commission from
Lyon's Fête Des Lumières, The Nearer Тһе
Fountain... offers glimpses of changing states: the
echoey drumbeats and glistening guitar lines that
provide something that's less a framework, more a
makeshift netting for The Cormorant; the foreboding
soundscapes of Esja, gathering like clouds before
parting for the namesake Icelandic mountain to
loom into sight. Woven throughout are images
of loss and the need for regeneration, but also a
sense of hope and resilience. Initial sessions for the

album took place in Reykjavík before the onset of
Covid-19, but it's impossible to hear the repeated
lyrical references to particles without thinking of
viral spreads, or the more elemental matter we
hope lost loved ones leave behind. Impossible,

too, for phrases such as, “Am | imprisoned on this
island?" (The Cormorant) and, "As the hours slide
off the page like clouds somewhere else" (Darkness
To Light) not to reflect life as it was lived throughout
2020 and much of 2021.

Like that amorphous time, The Nearer The
Fountain... refuses to find any true shape - until,
that Is, its penultimate song, Polaris. Acting as
the album's north star, it draws to itself the best
of the fragmentary ideas that have preceded it,
channelling them into something that shimmers
with Albarn's more usual confidence. Clearly,
retreating to Iceland has once again proven
cathartic for him, as it was when Blur decamped
to Reykjavik for the 13 sessions. Overall, however,
the effect is a bit like looking at someone else's
holiday photos: the experience must have been
great for them, but it feels intangible for those
who weren't there.

Phil Manzanera and
Tim Finn

Caught By The Heart
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Expression Records EXPCD 41 (CD)
A very happy Latin-flavoured
reunion
тп Finn Unlike other
Phil Manzane IBS
1 recorded at
4 ^'* | a distance,
| Caught By

Ihe Heart truly sounds as if
everyone was in the same
room. It brings Phil Manzanera
back in touch with Tim Finn,
who he first met when Split
Enz supported Roxy Music in
1975. As lockdown hit, Finn
mailed Manzanera in London
from New Zealand asking ІТ
he had any Latin grooves that
he could work on. By cheerful
coincidence, Manzanera
had been working on a Latin
album. Finn's voice, lower
through age, is one of the
most beautiful and underrated
in pop. Its emotional heft lies
In its economy, as on the title
track and All [hat's Human,
while Manzanera continues
the purple patch he hit on
2015's The Sound Of Blue
— his solo on Mambo! Salsa!
could be by no one else.
Daryl Easlea

114 Record Collector

Tom Morello
The Atlas Underground
Fire
Kk
Mom + Pop Music CD MP 584
(CD, 2LP)
Guitarist brings in his
buddies for more Raging
ces Not content
with serving
in a trio of
influential
bands (Rage
Against The Machine,
Audioslave, Prophets of Rage),
Tom Morello now supplements
his Nightwatchman solo
career with genre-blending
collaborative albums.
Morello's singular guitar
style has facilitated diverse
guest appearances over the
years, (Wu-Tang Clan, Bruce
Springsteen) and weaves а
unifying thread through The
Atlas Underground Fire's
eclectic fusion of rock, hip
hop and electronica. Damian
Marley adds a ragga-style
vocal over The Achilles List's
industrial setting, and Тһе
Boss and Pearl Jam's Eddie
Vedder belt lustily through
AC/DC's Highway To Hell.
There's organic Americana
(The War Inside), Rage-style
riffing (Save Our Souls), and

cinematic electronica (Driving
To Texas), and the majority
of tracks leave memorable
impressions. Diverting and
rewarding. Rich Davenport

Marissa Nadler
The Path Of The Clouds
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Bella Union BELLA 1271 (CD, LP)
Boston's gothic-folkie
dreams big

| Influenced

ы binges of

| Unsolved

ШИС YE! Mysteries,
Marissa Nadler returns
with an album of rhapsodic
Irresolution, open-ended Іп
Its controlled-storm sonics
and story-song subjects
alike. A maze-like murder-
mystery ballad, Bessie, Did
You Make It? raises question
marks that linger throughout
the album's shifting shapes.
All death's-head dirge and
elemental guitars, the title-
track cogitates on enigmatic
hijacker DB Cooper to
hypnotic effect; meanwhile,
between its immersive
electro-organic swoon and
superhero fantasies, If |
Could Breathe Underwater
evokes a high-concept Kate

Bush composing for Marvel,
enhanced by Mary Lattimore's
harp. Other guests include
Simon Raymonde, Emma
Ruth Rundle and Midlake's
Jesse Chandler, indicators

all of Nadler’s evolved reach.
When Black Mountain’s Amber
Webber harmonises on aloum
standout Elegy, the sense

of an artist rising to her sky-
scraping potential rings out
clearly. Kevin Harley

Nightmares On Wax
Shout Out! To Freedom
Жж ЖЖ Ж

Warp WARPLP 321 (CD, 21Р)
Exploration of freedom from
downtempo veteran
NIGHTMaRES| Quietly and

ON WAX stealthily, just
like their music,
Nightmares
zTarsEEnow (n Wax have
become Warp 5 longest-
serving signing. Thirty years
and nine albums later,
the enforced shutdown of
the past 18 months has
worked wonders for George
Evelyn (the man behind the
Nightmares). Тһе break from
a decade's worth of constant
touring and a cancer scare
offered him the opportunity
to take stock. Evelyn had

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long harboured the desire
to feature collaborators
throughout a full album, so
gave his co-stars the simple
brief of "what's going on
inside". Partners such as
Shabaka Hutchings and
Greentea Peng give Shout
Out! To Freedom more of a

contemporary feel than NOW's

recent work. The blaxploitation
recreation Own Me and the
dream-jazz of Wonder are
beautiful examples of this
new-found freedom, while
Imagineering highlights ЗО
years' worth of chill-out
superiority. Daryl Easlea

Nathaniel Rateliff &
The Night Sweats
The Future

KKK

Stax STX 00476 (CD, LP)

lronic album title for the
revivalist bluesman

since emerging
with his
electrifying

| performance
of S.O.B. on
The Tonight Show in 2015,
Nathaniel Rateliff seemed
content to drift into following
Seasick Steve's career path
of rehashing the act in mid-
afternoon festival slots. After

Photo (Damon Albarn): Linda Brownlee

last year's solo album And It’s
Still Alright hinted he wanted
to move on, Rateliff's third
full-band album is an excellent
gear change. If hardly the leap
forward the title implies, the
Colorado bluesman diversifies
into an array of classic styles.
He does a spot-on Van
Morrison shuffle on Love Me
Till lm Gone, echoes The
Cars’ power-pop in I'm Оп
Your Side and even apes Tom
Jones' growl elsewhere. So
Put Out is the only instantly
familiar regular vaudeville
showmanship as Rateliff is
worth working up a sweat for
again. John Earls

Emma Ruth Rundle
Engine Of Hell

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Portland's grunge-folkie
өреге her heart

After her
lava-spitting
collaboration

| with Thou, May
Our Chambers
Be Full, типа Ruth Rundle
summons a personal
apocalypse on her solo return.
Working with acoustic guitar
and piano, Rundle pulls

us deeply into an austere
song-cycle of traumatic
childhood memories, its raw
confessionals imparted close-
mic. Even if the plot-points
remain murky, a story unfolds
of loss and regret, made
tangible in every fretboard
slide and piano creak. Return
sets the sepulchral tone,
before past shadows take
unsettling shape on Blooms
Of Oblivion, with references
to methadone clinics and

a “fistful of sorries you will
never say". As darker demons
nudge us towards grimmer
territory, In My Afterlife digs
down to summon a carefully
guarded kind of catharsis: an
impeccably judged conclusion
for an intense, unadorned
chronicle of sorrow.

Kevin Harley

Santana
Blessings And Miracles

BMG 4050538714548 (CD, 2LP)
Formulaic fretwork, two
E on
d E Тһе template
for Carlos
oantana's
late-career
renaissance,
established : in 1999 by
Supernatural, has been
revisited if not entirely
revitalised for this new
offering — indeed Matchbox
20’s Rob Thomas, who voiced
the breakthrough single that
introduced the guitarist to a
new generation, reprises the
role in the shameless Smooth
soundalike Move.

Other notable guests

include Steve Winwood, who
fails to redeem an awkwardly
Latinised A Whiter Shade Of
Pale, and the late jazzman
Chick Corea. His keyboards
on All Together mix potently
with Santana's guitar, vocals
proving unnecessary. Longtime
fans could have lapped it

up at twice the length, but
all but two of the 15 tracks
here are short and snappy.
One exception, America For
Sale, features the guitar of
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett but
Sits uneasily amid the slightly
forced good vibes. Michael
Heatley

Son Volt
Electro Melodier

Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers TS 2023
(CD, LP)
Blue-collar boon for
music conservatives
Буа Anyone banking
J| on Son Volt
deviating from
the country-
aR —! rock moves of
their stunning debut, 1995's
Trace, invest elsewhere.
These days, Jay Farrar's
band are comparable to
avuncular relatives, passing
down world-weary wisdoms in
warm embraces, comfortingly
fuzzed like signals from the
two vintage amplifiers lending
Electro Melodier its name.
Laura Cantrell's yearning
cameo on Diamonds And
Cigarettes seems near-
revolutionary compared to
most of what's on offer here,
the former Uncle Tupelo-man
successfully pitching upon
tried-and-tested terrain. The
anthemic stomp of Reverie
and slide-soaring of The Levee
On Down find Farrar adopting
the mantle of a modern-day
Woody Guthrie or James
Agee, his social conscience
steadfastly more progressive
than his sound. Electro
Melodier holds few surprises
and fewer frills, but delivers
on Son Volt's guarantee
for honest, unpretentious,
working-man's blues.
Spencer Grady

Strawberry Guy

oun Outside My Window
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Melodic MELO 132 (LP)

Alex Stephens' sunshine-
soaked sound
е —9 Welsh-born,
Liverpool-based
Alex Stephens
is Strawberry

i Guy, who, when
not playing keyboards with

the Orielles, makes records

of symphonic shoegazing. His
track Mrs Magic has become
a viral sensation, paving

the way for Sun Outside My
Window, his debut long-
player. A tribute to the simple
things in life and what makes

you happy, the album 15 as
influenced by Debussy as
Dennis Wilson. Piano-led, Stay
In This Moment sounds like

a joyous, forgotten, early 705
single; the title track is dream
pop with a killer chorus.
Stephens’ orchestration,
although synthetic sounds
analogue and sympathetic

to the material. Recorded in
his Georgian Merseyside flat,
this is the sort of record that
typifies the best Scallydelia:
honeyed and sincere, past-
referencing, future-leaning,
fragile, with copper-bottomed
melodies. Тот Byford

Swansea Sound
Live At The Rum
Puncheon
KKK
Skep Wax SKEPWAX 005 LP (CD, LP)
Ramshackle, punky
ntocHousnass
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ESSE (the band
comprising former members
of Pooh Sticks and Tallulah
Gosh) and purist sensibilities,
it is hardly surprising that
Swansea Sound yearn for
happier times. Appropriating
their moniker as well as
the album's title from two
now sadly obsolete Welsh
institutions, their dewy-eyed
nostalgia is laid bare most
conspicuously on buzzsaw
opener Rock N Roll Void
("Went to Ramones when
| was 13/Heard The Kinks
when | was 3”). It's an album
packed full of hook-filled two-
and-a-half-minute pop songs
(containing some genuinely
impressive harmonies by
Portland band The Crystal
Furs), where droll observations
(“your je ne sais quoi — don't
know what it is") are offset
by the underlying acerbic
commentary on contemporary
corporatisation and digital
branding. Johnnie Johnstone

The The
The Comeback Special

ЖЖЖЖ

Cineola/EarMusic 0213947 EMU

(5CD, DVD, Blu-ray, 10”)
Comprehensive document
of Matt Johnson's return
to the stage

Matt Johnson
doesn't do
things by halves
and this record
eee Of his first tour
for almost two decades is
suitably exhaustive. Housed in
a deluxe 136-page hardback
book, it presents the band's
2018 Royal Albert Hall show
over double CD, DVD and
Blu-ray, plus three discs of
ancillary material and a 10" of
remixes. Johnson overhauled
his back catalogue to suit the
strengths of his new band,

Tom Morello: sharing a
tender moment with his
loved one

making his presence felt not
only on guitar but vocally,
too. This iteration of The The
are lithe and tight, and away
from their contemporaneous
production, the songs sound
completely reinvigorated.
Long-time collaborator
Tim Pope filmed the show
up close and personal,
only occasionally pulling
out to reveal the scale of
the event. Live albums are
usually listened to once and
then filed away, but The
Comeback Special, particularly
in its deluxe edition, is one
worth immersing yourself in.
Wesley Doyle

Voka Gentle

Wrthing!

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Leafy Outlook LEAFY2 (CD, 21Р)
Restless trio's experimental
indie-rock

This trio's
2019 album

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Cymbals

= contained

an artful mix of psychedelia,
folk, jazz and kitchen sink
musicianship. This second
long-player maintains the
eclecticism but ups the funk,
Its groovier moments recalling
the likes of Dirty Projectors
and St. Vincent. Skittering
drums and mid- / Os-style
synth lines sitting alongside
machine funk could be just
that bit too clever-clever but
the pop nous that underpins
much of Writhing! all saves

it from cold theorising — see
TV Bra" (LCD Soundsystem
meets Phillip Glass), Gorillaz-
esque See Damage or
standout track DREAD/TKOE

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(yes, they have a certain

way with song titles). Guest
contributors here include the
likes of Wayne Coyne but

it's testament їо Writhing!'s
quality that collabs just get

in the way. Things end with
the swirling Wicker Man
robo-folk of The Black Swell,
"| will overcome you" being
coolly crooned over the freaky
backdrop. We won't argue with
that. Mike Goldsmith

Sami Yaffa
The Innermost Journey To
Your Outermost Mind

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Livewire LW 061-2 (CD)
Diverse debut solo outing
for ex-Hanoi Rocks bassist
| Despite
a Career
stretching
back over 40
years, and
global fame and fortune with
Hanoi Rocks, it's perhaps а
surprise that Тһе Innermost
Journey To Your Outermost
Mind is Sami Yaffa’s first solo
album. Claiming inspiration
from bands such as The
Rolling Stones in the way
their albums feature a variety
of styles, Yaffa has delivered
an exciting album that's
extraordinarily eclectic, yet
still robustly cohesive. Mixing
rock (Armageddon Together)
reggae (Rotten Roots), punk
(Selling Me Shit) and power
pop (Fortunate One, and the
gloriously frenetic single The
Last Time), and infusing it with
40 years of dirt and swagger,
the bassist neatly proves that
whatever you call it, it’s only
rock'n'roll, and he likes it. Yes,
he does... John Tucker

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Record Collector 115

Tenement Kid
Bobby Gillespie

White Rabbit, £20
ISBN 9781474622066, 412 pages

A cover quote from Courtney
Love sets Primal Scream
singer Bobby Gillespie up as
"rock'n'roll's Oliver Twist",

and Tenement Kid tries to
prove it. His autobiography
covers his pre- and early-fame
years, up to the release of
Screamadelica in 1991,
giving the sense of a Glasgow
street urchin living on the cusp
of the post-industrial age,
taken on the adventure of

a lifetime by music.

The book veers away from
easy, big-picture rock'n'roll
mythologising, homing in on
the detail of the times and
Gillespie's emotional
responses and artistic
influences. During his young
life in the Glasgow suburb of
Springburn, friends had the
Pope or the Queen on their
family walls and “we had Che
Guevara and the Black
Panthers. Thank fuck." His
dad, a high-profile trade
unionist, knew Billy Connolly,
Arthur Scargill and Gordon
Brown, but family rows and
violence on the streets made
Gillespie melancholy and
angry; "when punk came
along, | was just ready for it."

A lifelong friendship with
Alan McGee began when they
agreed to join one another at
a [hin Lizzy gig, and the
evolution of Primal Scream
throughout the 80s includes
layovers in The Wake and
Jesus And Mary Chain and
getting his first E from Happy
Mondays via McGee. Another
volume covering the Scream
era Is surely planned, but
Tenement Kid feels like the
real glory years. David Pollock

Prince And The
Parade & Sign O' The
Times Studio
Sessions 1985 And
1986

Duane Tudahl

Rowman & Littlefield, £27.90
ISBN 9781538144510, 620 pages

116 Record Collector

With his first book covering
the Purple Rain sessions and
the songs that made Prince a
global icon, Tudahl’s second
day-by-day account deals with
the two years in which the
newly crowned king of pop
(and rock and funk and...)
worked out what to do next.
Evidently, the answer was:
push himself further.

This book does far more
than log session details for
two of Prince's greatest
albums. First, there's the fact
that Prince continues to cycle
through side projects — Sheila
E, Ihe Family, Madhouse - a
movie (Under The Cherry
Moon) and his own relentless
run of ideas (SOTT was the
fourth album he had
assembled in 1986, but the
only one that saw the light of
day), to the point where,
before you know it, 36 hours

have passed and three or four

songs are in the can. Then
there's the narrative that
unfolds: we catch Prince in
the throes of trying to
understand his fame, relying
on The Revolution's creativity
before firing them and
reclaiming his music for
himself. Among this, a
lesser-sung figure emerges:
Susannah Melvoin, twin sister
of Revolution guitarist Wendy,
whose romantic involvement
with Prince has long been
recognised, but whose
collaborative input here
becomes better understood.
Unlike The Revolution,
however, Susannah left of her
own accord - arguably the
event that brings this period
in Prince's life to a close,
leaving him truly alone again
in the studio.

Tudahl's access - both to
the prosaic notations on
timesheets and the first-hand
accounts of Prince's closest
collaborators, who add colour
to the black marks on white
paper — is as unparalleled as
his work is exhaustive. You're
left not only trying to keep up
with Prince's work rate, but
Tudahl's own committed
approach to documenting an
inexhaustible artist at his
most dauntingly prolific.
Jason Draper

Americanaland:
Where Country
& Western Met
Rock'n'Roll
John Milward

University Of Illinois Press £22.99
ISBN978-0-252-04391-8, 232
pages

Americana IS a wide-ranging
term. It encompasses
everything from old-time
country (what music critic
Greil Marcus describes as

Bobby Gillespie:
tenement kid to
tuxedo dad

“old, weird America”) to post-
war country (Johnny Cash,
Buck Owens), Sun Records,
Elvis, through to country rock
(The Byrds, Emmylou Harris,
The Burrito's, Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band), Steve Earle, Dylan and
The Band, outlaw country
(Merle Haggard and Willie
Nelson), alt.country (Wilco,
The Jayhawks and Son Volt)
and all manner of singer-
songwriters.

Milward weaves together
the strands of the genres,
linking individuals and bands
through their records and back
stories across 17 chapters,
from 20s hissing 78s through
to the current crop of
Americana artists: Drive By
Truckers, Jason Isbell, even
Billy Bragg (with Wilco and Joe
Henry) and Robert Plant (with
Alison Krauss and Patti
Griffin). Milward's book
defines Americana and Margie
Greve's unique artwork
captures its spirit. Tony Burke

Jamaican
Recordings: The
Birth Of Ska

Noel Hawks and

Jah Floyd

Jamaican Recordings, £14.99
ISBN 095699911-5, 186 pages

Few remember Stanley
Motta's name nowadays. But
Motta opened, in 1951, the
first recording studio in

Jamaica - in truth, little more
than a room with one
microphone and a tape
recorder. Battling against
almost insuperable difficulties,
he sent his mento tapes to
London for mastering and
pressing, and the fragile /8s
came back to Jamaica by ship.

In Jamaican Records: The
Birth Of Ska, the first of a
trilogy, authors Noel Hawks
and Jah Floyd chronicle the
determination and vigour of
the island's pioneering record
men, people such as the radio
repairer Ivan Chin and theatre
owner Dada Tewari. We read
of the advent of radio in
Jamaica and of the
establishment of record
pressing plants, and of sound
system operators such as
Coxsone Dodd, who produced
American-influenced R&B and
ska recordings to play
at their dances.

The book speaks with
multiple voices. The fruits of
20 years’ worth of interviews
with key music business
figures are expertly woven Into
the text and bring the story to
life: Bunny Lee, who knew
everyone in the business and
had stories about most; the
breezy reminiscenes of
Australian sound engineer
Graeme Goodall: the
recollections of early recording
Stars like Owen Gray and
Delroy Wilson. The book ends
with the foundation and growth
of the vitally important Studio

One in Kingston’s Brentford
Road. It's an enthralling story
which will continue in the next
volume. Mike Atherton

Bowie Odyssey /1
Simon Goddard

Omnibus Press, £14.99
ISBN 9781913172053, 164 pages

A landmark 12 months for
both David Bowie and British
culture as a whole, 1971 isn't
the year when it all took flight
for the man who would soon
be at the forefront of every
significant musical shift of the
705, but it found him making
remarkably speedy progress
from struggling one-hit
wonder to the confidently
unconventional songwriter
behind Hunky Dory and then
onto the first stirrings of his

Photo (Bobby Gillespie): Sam Christmas

supercharged glam alter ego
Ziggy Stardust. Other books
will give you minute
breakdowns of every Garbo
pose and studio recording
session, but in this second
instalment in an ongoing
series, Goddard brings to life
the wider context around
Bowie's development.
London's underground gay-
club scene - forcibly going
overground with the Gay
Liberation Front — Marc
Воһап 5 tauntingly
stratospheric UK success and
Bowie's fantasy-fulfilling first
brushes with New York City
hang as backdrops to a

story told in an evocative,
freewheeling style that
matches the cascade of ideas
flowing from Bowie's Haddon
Hall HQ.

Fifty years on, his success
seems to have been written in
the stars, but Bowie Odyssey
71 is a reminder of how
precarious Bowie's future once
was — and what a unique
proposition he had always
been. Jason Draper

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The Doors

every album, every song

The Doors - Оп
Track: Every Album,
Every Song

Tony Thompson

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Sonicbond Publishing, £14.99

ISBN 9781789521375, 128 pages
More than just the cult

of Morrison

The Doors mean different
things to different people.
Lionised by those who
regarded them as "scruffy
beatniks from Venice", these
days they're either revered or
merely regarded with polite
curiosity. Yet although the cult
of frontman Jim Morrison has
often eclipsed the band's
achievements, it's a point well
made that the seven albums
recorded by Morrison, Ray
Manzarek, Robby Krieger and
John Densmore from 1967 to
1971 all went Тор 10 in the
States, and they hit the top
spot with their second single
Light My Fire (apparently
earning each musician a
generous gift from their
delighted record label).
Thompson starts his analysis
not with 196 /'s self-titled
debut but with London Fog
1966, an early performance
released 50 years after it was
recorded at the club the

author calls "The Doors'
Hamburg". Following this
comes the album-by-album
critique of this talented band
fronted by a chaotic yet quite
extraordinary singer-cum-
beat-poet. Thompson digs
deep to separate fact from
fiction, but as ever with fan-
written exposés there's not an
awful lot that he feels the
need to criticise, and he does
go rather over the top at
times: "If you are in your
fifties," he writes of Greatest
Hits, "you'll recall that
everyone you knew owned it."
Really? John Tucker

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Nu Metal-A
Definitive Guide
Matt Karpe
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Sonicbond Publishing, £17.99

ISBN 9781789520637, 240 pages
Encyclopaedic analysis of
metal's unruly child

Any volume that lumps Judas
Priest and Motórhead in with
the NWOBHM immediately
sets alarm bells ringing, but
once Matt Karpe dispenses
with the scene-setting and
moves onto his specialist
subject he's on much safer
ground. The author of a
couple of books on the sub-
genre and The Nu Zine, as
well as the owner of TNZ
Records, Karpe Is an
undoubted expert in the field;.
And although labelling
anything as "definitive" is
always a risky tactic there's
little doubt that this is a
weighty and conclusive
overview of nu metal.

Is Korn's Blind "possibly
the greatest nu metal song"?
Read and decide as Karpe
romps through a
comprehensive A-Z of bands
(anyone remember Human
Waste Project from California,
or Romford's SugarComa?)
complete with extensive
biographies and suggested
“killer cuts" from each act. An
interview with producer Ross
Robinson ("often described as
the man who shaped nu
metal"), together with
discographies of other notable
producers relevant to the sub-
genre, and a chapter on some
of the more nu metal-
orientated OSTs flesh out the
picture. However, the inclusion
of some bands with relatively
thin justification (Machine
Head, for example, as well as
the likes of Rammstein and

Sepultura) might raise a few
eyebrows. John Tucker

A Furious Devotion:
The Authorised Story
Of Shane MacGowan

Richard Balls
KKK

Omnibus Press, £20
ISBN 9781787601086, 334 pages
The triumphs and troubles
of a flawed genius
It's well over two decades
since Shane MacGowan
recorded any new material,
his last release the 1997
album with The Popes, The
Crock Of Gold. Subsequent
years saw occasional reunion
tours fronting the more
celebrated Pogues, but
inevitably the latter chapters
of this biography focus on the
often unsavoury side of his
life away from music.
struggles with health and
drugs are rife, not least when
concerned friend Sinead
O'Connor has him arrested for
possession in an attempt to
scare him straight, and there
|5 a growing list of casualties
among others in the singer's
immediate orbit. It's to the
author's credit that
MacGowan's sad decline 15
chronicled without recourse to
tabloid sensationalism, never
losing sight of the mercurial
talent that made him worthy
of headlines in the first place.
Balls, a seasoned
journalist who's been close to
his subject in both London
and Dublin, writes evocatively
about Shane's upbringing, his
emergence from the punk
scene to become a lyricist in
the same eloquent vein as
Weller or Costello, and of how
The Pogues' success
re-energised traditional Irish
folk music. Diligent research
and candid interviews with
friends and colleagues who've
rarely spoken publicly before
add weight to the legacy of a
formidable musician but
frequently difficult man.
Terry Staunton

Babylon's Burning:
Music, Subcultures
and Anti-Fascism in
Britain 1958-2020
Кіск Blackman

ЖЖЖЖ Ж

Bookmarks, £10

ISBN 9781912926978, 330 pages
Vital account of music's
role in fighting UK racism
Named after The Ruts' anti-
racism classic, Blackman, an
activist since the &Os, has
adapted his PhD thesis into
the definitive — unfortunately
timeless — work on music-
related anti-fascist activity
over the last 60 years.
Crucially writing without
passing judgement or easy
retaliatory abuse (no matter
how deserved), Blackman lets
cold facts speak for
themselves as he presents
violent racism as hate-driven
infestation prone to strike at
times of socio-political
uncertainty. From Mosley

through NF boot boys to
Tommy Robinson, it's doomed
to fail, even if the problem
lingers like a foetid smell.

The author focuses his
exhaustively forensic account
on the Stars Campaign For
Interracial Friendship (SCIF,
formed by jazz musicians
after 1958's Notting Hill
riots), Rock Against Racism
(RAR, created in 1976 after
Eric Clapton's drunken rant
onstage in Birmingham) and
Love Music Hate Racism
(LMHR, running between
2002-2020), ending with
Black Lives Matter. The early
chapters are particularly
fascinating as Blackman
places youth cults as gullible
targets for fascist factions,
from teddy boys to skinheads,
mods emerging as crucial in
embracing black culture in
the 60s.

Writing as someone
who marched from Trafalgar
Square to Hackney's Victoria
Park in 19/8 (psychotic
hatred on the faces of
outnumbered NF dullards
an indelible memory), the
towering importance of this
book cannot be overstated. A
landmark work. Kris Needs

Scorcha! Skins,
Suedes And Style
From The Streets
1967-1973

Paul "Smiler" Anderson
& Mark Baxter

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Omnibus Press, £30

ISBN 9781785584930, 304 pages
Bygone youth cultures
cutting a dash

Readers of a certain age will
recall prolific author Richard
Allen's early 19705 quickie
paperbacks about youth
fashion, culture and tribalism
with titles such as Skinhead,
Suedehead, Boot Boys and
Smoothies. In some respects,
Scorcha! is a largely pictoral
coffee table accompaniment
to those seedy, violence-
riddled stories, but an
overwhelmingly more positive
celebration of the skins scene
and its offshoots, and its
followers' slavish devotion to
wearing the right clothes,
embracing the crucial sounds
(black music, in particular)
and living the attendant
lifestyle, in clubs and on
football terraces.

Suggs of Madness sets
the scene in the foreword,
referencing his time as a
young suedehead (“а dot in
social history, they say, but
for me, mindblowing”), which
the authors follow with dozens
more first-hand accounts
about the importance of
searching for an identity.
Hundreds of archive pictures
contribute to this richly
evocative examination of
styles that were pieced
together by (mostly) working-
class youth determined to
find their own voice.

The durability of these
street fashions was evident

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with the subsequent rise of
2-Tone and the mod revival,
but here's where you'll

find the lean and hungry
roots of the cultures and
philosophies behind them.
Equally fascinating are the
passages on the music

that soundtracked the
movements, the essential
45s and compilation albums
still cherished by 21st century
collectors. Terry Staunton

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Dave Grohl

The Storyteller

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Simon & Schuster, £20

ISBN 9781398503700, 376 pages
The nicest guy in rock
delivers a book to match
Around halfway into his
charming autobiography, Dave
Grohl explains he was never
drawn to grimness, writing:
“Тһе darker side of music was
something | was always
attracted to sonically, but |
began to realise it wasn't who
| was as a person. Music had
always represented life and
light to me." A famously
accommodating interviewee,
that uplifting spirit is shot
through his memoir, which has
the everyman charm of Grohl's
personality and Foo Fighters’
approachable music.

The Foos' big picture
music and holler-along
anthems aren't for everyone,
though, and accordingly nor
will Grohl’s book satisfy those
after the murkier details of
Nirvana. It’s not that Grohl
skirts controversy, more his
episodic recollections mean
he prefers telling the stories
he finds revealing: his first
credit card gets more space
than In Utero. If the snapshot
style means certain
biographical aspects are
missing, Grohl’s warm and
conversational prose ensures
the stories he does write
about are vivid.

The final section, centred
around Grohl's children, is
especially heartwarming.
Juggling stardom with family
life has rarely been written
about better. If that's not what
anyone wanting salacious
tales of the road is after,
tough. There are a few road
warrior stories, but Dave Grohl
is much more at ease
explaining why he got Joan
Jett to babysit. John Earls

Record Collector 117

Singles

Blueboy

Blueboy John Peel
session 03.12.94
Precious PRE 005
The fifth in this built-to-
collect series of double EPs
of distant indie bands in
matching gatefold sleeves
presents Reading's Blueboy,
formerly signed to Sarah, the
sparkling label from down the
MA in Bristol. The sleevenote
— yes, proper notes on an ЕР
penned by the band's guitarist
and tunesmith, Paul Stewart
— informs us this mops up the
remaining studio tapes from
the band, and explains the
thinking behind the material
and arrangements, and how
the session unfolded, and
puts it into context in terms
of Blueboy's "career". Single
One comprises acoustic
tracks. Toulouse provides

the perfect showcase for
Keith Girdler's vulnerable
vocal, delivered over unfussy
acoustic guitar and Gemma
Townley's dreamy cello.

Good News Week - not that
one, but a song otherwise
unissued - follows the

same template, with the
elegant bow-work even more
prominent. Single Two reveals
the rock'n'roll side of the
band, the grimy-sounding
Dirty Mags shoved along by
surprisingly Peter Hookish
bass and smacking snare
drum cutting through a

wash of guitar. The chunkier
Loony Tunes has towering,
heavyweight six-string апа
Girdler sounding as raw as a
bear's sushi. Not the sound of
'94, perhaps, but as redolent
of its era as anything,
beautifully presented for our
delectation. Keith Girdler
passed away, tragically young,
in 2007; here's something a
little wonderful to remember
him by.

Dyson's Faces

ете Iwo Fools In
Love/Don't Worry
About [he Jones
Miles Away MA ОО9
Fronted by Clifton Dyson,
Dyson's Faces cut one-and-
a-bit albums in the mid-7Os,
now horribly expensive for
soul collectors. With major
label support, maybe they'd
have been stars, because
Clifton, a far harder-edged
singer than his more
celebrated brother, Ronnie
Dyson, really had it going on.
The guy could do it tough
or tender, and he finds the

118 Record Collector

perfect setting to do so
thanks to Eddie Drennon, who
could arrange soul tunes like
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen can
arrange décor. Here are two
little thrillers, the uptempo
We're Iwo Fools In Love,

and the pointed but glorious
ballad Don't Worry About The
Jones, which is like chilling
on a bed of tremoloed guitar
marshmallows. A singer as
dazzling as Dyson might pass
almost unnoticed back then
but he'd be regarded as a
vocal freak of nature today.
Hoover up this Dyson.

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The Courettes
R.I.N.G.O/The Boy
| Love Damaged
Goods DAMGOOD
566

Imagine an early 60s girl
group just too nasty, too loud,
too brutal, too gum-chewin',
random-shaggin', cynical, and
honest to get signed. Say,
Carla from Cheers fronting the
Crystals, or Elektra from Pose
leading The Crystals, but with
a heavy shot of Noo Yawk 705
punk. That’s The Courettes,
not that they are a girl group
from the past- they're а
male-female duo, ballsy as

a golf driving range’s net, yet
attuned to the classic female
pop template. They beat

out a tribute to some long-
forgotten drummer with none
of the subtlety he specialised
in (oh yes he did). But that’s
alright, there’s huge bites of
fun to be had here, as they
prove you don't have to be

a murdering woman-hating
shitbag to deliver a massive
wall of sound. On the flip,
they remake an earlier
Courettes' gem. The Boy I
Love, rendering it even more
frantic and bruising. Cour
blimey, it's big, pulsating and
magnificent.

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SMALL WONDER?

The Carpettes Small
Wonder?/2ne1 Mad
Butcher Classics
MBC 151

Just 59p when released on

Small Wonder, the "boutique"
(ha ha ha) record shop label
that kept Wathamstow's міпуі-
hungry brats such as myself
happy and verbally pecked

at for years, this punky devil
could cost you in excess of
£150 in its original format

on Discogs, should the
craving arise. Luckily, County
Durham's noisy threesome's
second single has been
picked up by another small
but worthy imprint, Mad
Butcher, from Gottingen,
Germany. | remember the
single from the time but |
don't recall it being quite this
punchy and enjoyable. | guess
we were spoilt for choice
back then. Tidy, organised,
powerful and full of the joys
of just being three young
guys enjoying expressing
themselves, there's a purity
and freshness here. You can
beat a rug but you cant beat
Carpettes.

Jeremy/Jim Griffin
Crack The Sky/Our
New World Will Bathe
In Ambient Light
Fruits de Mer Friends
Of The Fish 50
Dragged kicking and croaking
from a freebie Fruits de Mer
members’ CD, Music For
Amphibians, here's a brace
of more-or-less hard rock
bullfrogs from the prolific
Jeremy Morris of The Lemon
Clocks, and Jim Griffin of
Irish cosmic prognosticators
Zombie Picnic. They're very
different, yet sit well together.
You can see why Jeremy
named his soaring guitar
instrumental Crack The Sky,
even if it may have been
named after the prog band.

It roars out of the starting
block, hurtling across the
Stratocastersphere, a bog-
basic drum beat kicking hard
and a set of easy chords
peppering the bottom end
while guitar flies across
tangles of noise like transistor
radios trying to tune into
Radio Luxembourg or the

FX of distant 80s Galaxians'
gameplay. Bet William
Shatner's heart was raging
like this when he was pinged
into space in a converted
Amazon Prime delivery van.
Jim Griffin's offering is more
complex, with a dance beat
(kinda), a synthesised feel
and effects-laden axe playing
the circular riffs you haven't
heard since the glory days of
krautrock. Highly exhilarating,
but also scarce, this being the
realm of lathe-cut madness.
But what a nice pair — without
any of that sniggering
schoolboy Floyd compilation
sleeve rudeness.

Billy Idol [he
Roadside EP BMG
BGRT 89334 1
Considering he was widely
gobbed on in the 705, and
his near-fatal motorbike
smash of three decades ago,
which he muses over here

on the moody Bitter Taste,
Billy Idol still looks pretty
cool. He has good bones,
you see, even if some had to
be reassembled. Bill sounds
OK, too, if you don’t mind
the Iggy-cum-Chris Rea vocal
that peppers the poppier
Billy approach. Rita Hayworth
finds him remembering he
was once a suburban Lundun
punk, croaking like a villain
from a Ray Winstone movie.
U Don't Have To Kiss Me Like
That fizzes like a noisy rocket,
with cheeky references

to Jesus and Mary. Baby

Put Your Clothes Back On
throbs over an antique drum
machine and is 80s electro-
dark in a low-calorie way.
Guitars and, well, everything,
are worryingly efficient
throughout. On 12" blue
vinyl, some with a signed
insert, this is talk-show rock,
fine as far as it goes.

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LOS 2484

More vintage magic from
the mighty Cleopatra label.
Here's that superannuated
drum machine again — Conn,
| guess, as heard on Sly
Stone records and in this
instance, Humble Pie's
terrific version of James
Brown's Think, from the
lost album Joint Effort and
now a superb think-you re-
groovy B-side. Blimey,
Essex was cool back then;
this was recorded at Steve
Marriott's domestic studio
and it sizzles. The A-side
emanates from Winterland,
San Fran, 73, with the
vocal assistance of former
Raelette Clydie King, who
presumably never imagined
her old boss’ tune would
end up like this. Heavily
edited for this single, and
still the definition of funky
rock. Ray Charles and James
Brown, up in heaven, will
be asserting that these kids
couldn't do it like them! The
point is, they weren't trying
to, as Mr Marriott will no
doubt tell 'em.

Sweet Still Got The
Rock/Fox On The
Run (2020 version)
Prudential RRC
0014

They're still about, with

Andy Scott writing the songs
and delivering glamorous-
sounding — if not exactly
glam — rock. Recorded in
2015 and presented here
on single for the first time,
still Got The Rock is meaty,
beaty, big, but not very
bouncy, more thumping than
springy. The lyrics are an
exercise in self-justification,

| suppose, but if that’s what
floats their soap, that’s ok.

It struck me as a Shame
that they went more self-
consciously rock near the
end of their hitmaking career
—a hiatus and a modicum of
self-parody might have kept
them more in the limelight.
But if you are always having
to point out that you were
actually the real deal just
because you came out of
pure pop, taking the piss
out of yourself cannot be
easy. Fox On The Run stands
up very well to a recent-

ish retooling, even if it's
become somewhat of a
blunt instrument. And one
thing you can't knock is their
sense of humour - who else
would call their 2020 album
Isolation Boulevard? Genius,
you Sweeties.

Josi Dias & The
Kevin Fingier
Collective Um
Brilho Novo/Rua Noa
Bare Fingier FNGR

In compete contrast to
everything else here,

this is a heated dose

of Argentinian-Brazilian
pleasure like a cross
between Gil Scott-Heron’s
The Bottle and Beginning
Of The End’s Funky Nassau
while delivering a clattering
percussive drive all its own.
Argentinian mod Kevin
Fingier constructs soul with
a South American feel that
owes little to New York’s
Latin soul of the 705, or
the boogaloo of the 60s. It
effectively welds a tropical
Brazilian feel to a funky
beat, somehow jubilant yet
sensitively restrained at the
same time. Party season is
here, people, even if it’s just
in your own front room.

lan McCann

send new vinyl singles for
review to Singles at the
usual RC address.

Universal (Cinemas)

Queen of Soul biopic
dazzles and disappoints in
equal measure

Playing a real-life chanteuse
has often been a fast track to
Best Actress Oscar glory; just
ask Sissy Spacek (as Loretta
Lynn in Coal Miner's
Daughter), Reese
Witherspoon (June Carter
Cash in Walk The Line),
Marion Cotillard (Edith Piaf,
La Vie En Rose), or Renée
Zellweger (Judy Garland in
2019's Judy). The producers
of this colourful Aretha
Franklin biopic will be hoping
Jennifer Hudson similarly
woos Academy voters early
next year, and If It proves to
be her name inside the
envelope it's likely to be due
to style more than substance.

Franklin herself approved
the casting of Hudson (a
previous supporting actress
Oscar winner in her 2006
debut Dreamgirls), who
delivers electrifying turns in
the movie's elaborately filmed
musical numbers, and in the
scene where she assembles
the building blocks of
Aretha's star-making overhaul
of Otis Redding's Respect.
However, when there's no
backbeat to propel the
narrative it has a tendency to
revert to by-the-book
melodrama that mostly just
scratches the surface of the
soul legend's life.

The portrayals of
controlling men in Franklin's
life (Forrest Whittaker as her
preacher father, Marlon
Wayans as abusive husband
and manager Ted White)
rarely rise above cartoon
villainy, the singer's struggles
lazily signposted and
despatched with a frustrating
lack of depth. Thankfully,
Hudson's glowing screen
presence holds the viewer's
attention, whether as a
powerful stage performer, or
when the script offers little
more than punctuation points
in a high-end Jukebox
musical. Terry Staunton

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The Velvet
Underground

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Polygram (Cinemas, Apple TV+)
Fascinating left-field vision
of an art-rock bananadrama
Director Todd Haynes has
previously displayed an
idiosyncratic approach to
movies about music, in his
1987 debut Superstar (the
Karen Carpenter story played
out entirely with Barbie dolls),
the '98 glam rock flashback
mystery Velvet Goldmine, which
starred Ewan McGregor and
Christian Bale, and 200 /'s
stylised pseudo-biopic /'m Not
There — in which six actors
portrayed varying "personas"
of Bob Dylan. Yet, while his
Velvet Underground
documentary for Apple TV+
follows the more recognisable
conventions of the form, it's
nonetheless a film full of
cinematic drama.

It's a typically chronological
trawl through the life of a
seminal band who became a
cultural touchstone, the
passing of several key players
necessitating reams of archive
footage, but assembled in a
way that surprises and jars as
much as the source music was
capable of doing. The visual
and aural onslaught Is
relentless, arguably aping the
eye of the storm the musicians
themselves inhabited; split
screens are used to further
bombard the senses,
shoehorning impressions апа
interpretations into the more
Straightforward information of
the narrative.

Haynes pulls off the
laudable trick of both
debunking and embellishing
the band’s mystique, while
sketching intriguing portraits of
curious, difficult characters
along the way (Says John Cale
of his old bandmate Lou Reed,
“You try to be nice, he just
hates you even more”).
Ultimately, the director offers
up a labour of love that, while
celebrating the Velvets with
fanboy fervour, does so in a
manner as barbed, bold and
brilliant as the group itself. It’s
a must-watch. Terry Staunton

The Velvets: the first
member to look at Lou
got an ear-bashing

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Тһе Beatles And
India

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101 Films CRDVD190 (DVD, Blu-ray)
The culture clash and the

creativity it sparked

Like almost everything they did,
the Fabs’ stay at a 14-acre
ashram at the foot of the
Himalayas in 1968 made global
headlines, briefly affording their
spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi the ever-changing status of
supposed “fifth Beatle”. But
while some observers in the
press accused the band of
cynical cultural tourism,

director Ajoy Bose’s film
suggests the Summit was more
of a two-way street.

Returning to the themes of
his 2005 book Across The
Universe, Bose examines the
period as not only a creatively
rewarding experience for the
band but also a public relations
boost for an India seemingly
misunderstood and cut off
since gaining independence
from Britain in 1947. Surviving
ashram staff recall the
excitement of hosting these
famous western ambassadors,
while subsequent generations
of local musicians talk
enthusiastically about the
influence Beatles songs have
had on their own work.

Pattie Boyd shares vivid
memories of the growing
friendship between hubby
George Harrison and sitar
supremo Ravi Shankar, and
how the rest of the band’s

willingness to follow him on

a spiritual quest helped
strengthen previously shaky
bonds. Controversies and
tabloid half-truths are
addressed, corrected and
placed in the context of the
times, but the chief focus is a
voyage of discovery and
inspiration that, when the
visitors returned to Abbey Road
Studios, poured into the grooves
of “The White Album”.

Terry Staunton

3,2,1

Ж ЖЖЖ

Hulu (Disney Plus)

Macca takes Rick Rubin on
a tour of his back catalogue
The recounting of Beatles
stories takes place in many
forms, from the astonishing
books of Mark Lewisohn and
the late lan McDonald, to the
documentaries which range
from dubious cut'n'paste
documentaries with no Beatle
songs in, to Apple’s own
Anthology series, which was
the first to officialise the Fabs
mythos. With Ron Howard's
rebranding of the live years —
gig footage remixed and
rejigged — and Peter Jackson’s
upcoming Happy Mix of Let /t
Be, it sometimes feels like
there’s no meat left on the
Beatles chicken. But 3,2,1, the
Disney Plus series in which
Rick Rubin talks to Paul
McCartney about Macca songs
from the 605 and onwards,
somehow manages to offer
something new. Certainly it
looks great, the black and
white filming inside Abbey Road
adding dusty mystique to the
setting, and it sounds great
too, as Paul and Rick slide the
faders up and down to hear
that piccolo trumpet one more
time. McCartney is relaxed and
Rubin lets him speak. The
loose style of the episodes
enables the two men to rove
over Beatles and solo material
(Waterfalls/Check My Machine)

and the overall result is a series
for mostly fans but in general
all interested parties.

David Quantick

Tom Petty:
Somewhere You
Feel Free
ЖЖЖЖ

YouTube Originals

An uplifting look at a peak
Petty platter

This revealing documentary
recounts how Petty's largely
autobiographical triple-platinum
1994 album Wildflowers
proved to be a watershed Іп
both his career and private life.
It marked the departure of
long-serving Heartbreakers
drummer Stan Lynch, a fresh
start on a new label after years
of corporate confrontation, and
a back-to-basics studio
approach with Rick Rubin
replacing Jeff Lynne as Tom's
producer of choice.

Several of its songs
chronicled the collapse of his
20-year marriage and found
him taking stock of his lengthy
career, examined here through
a mixture of previously unseen
black-and-white 16mm footage
filmed during the recording
sessions and new interviews
with Ihe Heartbreakers and
Rubin (who admits to not being
a Petty fan when he was
young). Director Mary Wharton
brings the singer's dry humour
to the fore, painting a portrait
of a man rarely comfortable in
the spotlight but energised
when making, music. Insights
into Petty s work methods are
plentiful, especially from his
daughter Adria and guitarist
Mike Campbell, recalling the
frustrations of shelving close to
a dozen tracks when Warner
Brothers baulked at plans for
a double album. The
reinstatement of those songs
on the 2020 reissue provides
a fitting coda to a story of
a musician on a creative high.
Terry Staunton

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ALLISONS, I'll Cross My Fingers (Fontana 267255TF) М
МІКІ ANTONY, Cinnamon (RCA 1906, Demo) EX
BURR BAILEY & SIX SHOOTERS, San Francisco Bay (Decca

F11686) M
BARRY & TAMERLANES, Roberta (W. Bros. WB124, Demo) M
BEATLES, She Loves You (Parl. R5055) EX
BEATLES, Can't Buy Me Love (Parl. R5114) EX
BEATLES, Help (Parl. R5305) EX
BEATLES, We Can Work It Out (Parl. R5389) EX
BEATLES, Day Tripper (Parl. R5389) EX
BEATLES, | Feel Fine (Parl. R5200) M
BEATLES, Ticket To Ride (Parl. R5265) EX
BEATLES, | Want To Hold Your Hand (Parl, R5084) M
BEATLES, Get Back (Apple R5777) EX
BEE GEES, World (Polydor 56220) М
BERNADETTE, Come Kiss Me Love (Rim 2) M
DAVE BERRY, One Heart Between Two (Decca F12020) EX
BIG SPENDERS, Who's Making Love (Gemini GMSO10) EX
BLUEBEATERS, Little David (Piccadilly 7М35181, Demo) EX
BODY AND SOUL, Here Comes That Feeling

(Penny Farthing 720) EX

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, Mighty Quinn (CBS 4583, Demo) M
RUTH BROWN, This Little Girls Gone Rockin'

(Tri-London HLES757) EX
SOLOMAN BURKE, Only Love (Atlantic AT4061) M
JOHN BURNESS, Teresa (Col. DB8536) EX
JOHNNY BURNETTE, Dreamin' (London HLG9172) EX
ROY "C", Shotgun Wedding (Island WI273) EX
CADETS, If | Had My Life To Live Over (Pye 7N17024, Demo) М
CALIFORNIA MUSIC, Don't Worry Baby (RCA 2488, Demo) M
JOHNNY CAMERON, I Double Dare You (Top Rank JAR396) M
JO ANN CAMPBELL, Mr. Fix-It Man (Cameo Parkway C237) M
JO ANN CAMPBELL, Motorcycle Michael (HMV POP873) EX
JO ANN CAMPBELL, Girl Wolverton Mountain

(Col. DB4889, Demo) EX
LOS CANARIOS, Three Two Ah (Major Minor MM502) M
CANNED HEAT, Lets Work Together (Liberty LBF15302) EX
CAREFREES, We Love You Beatles (Oriole CB1916) EX
CARROLLS, So Gently Falls The Rain (CBS 3414, Demo) EX
CASTELLS, Sacred (London HLN9392) EX
BARBARA CHANDLER, I'm Going Out With Girls

(Lon. HLR9861, Demo) M
BRUCE CHANNEL, Number One Man (Mercury AMT1177) M
CHIMES, Once In A While (London HLU9283) EX
LOU CHRISTIE, Lightnin’ Strikes (MGM 1297) EX
JIMMY CLANTON, Another Sleepless Night (Top Rank JARS82) EX
JIMMY CLANTON, Go Jimmy Go (Top Rank JAR269) EX
ALMA COGAN, There's Never Been A Night (HMV POP531) ЕХ
ALMA COGAN, Sorry Sorry Sorry (HMV POP500) EX
ALMA COGAN, Last Night On The Back Porch (HMV POP573) ЕХ
ALMA COGAN, Sugartime (HMV POP450) EX
CLAY COLE, Twist Around The Clock (London HLP9499) EX
COZY COLE, Topsy (Tri-London HL8 750) ЕХ
COLLEGE BOYS, Good Times (Pye 7М17294, Demo) M
BOBBY COMSTOCK & COUNTS, Tennessee Waltz

(Top Rank JAR223) EX
BOB CORT, Mule Skinner Blues (Decca F11256) EX
DON COVAY, The Popeye Waddle (Cameo Parkway C239) M
CRESTERS, | Just Don't Understand (HMV POP1249) M
CRICKETS, Peggy Sue Got Married (Coral Q72417) EX
CRITTERS, Younger Girl (London HLR10047) EX
CRITTERS, Marryin' Kind Of Love (London HLR10119) EX
JIMMIE CROSS, Super-Duper Man (Red Bird RB10042, Demo) M
CRYSTALS, | Wonder (London HLU9852) M

KING CURTIS & NOBLE NIGHTS, Soul Twist (London HLU9547) VG
JOHNNY CYMBAL, Dum Dum Dee Dum

(London HLR9762, Demo) EX
JIMMY DALEY & DING A LINGS, Rock Pretty Baby

(Tri-Bruns. 05648) M
MIKI DALLON, | Care About You (RCA 1478, Demo) M
KENNY DAMON, While | Live (Mercury MF907) M
BOBBY DEACON, A Fool Was | (Pye 7N15270) EX
DIXIE CUPS, Chapel Of Love (Pye Int. 7N25245) M
DOORS, Hello | Love Yoy (Elektra EASN45037) M
DREAM WEAVERS, It’s Almost Tomorrow (Gold Bruns. 05515) ЕХ

WILLIAM E., Lazy Life (Polydor 56181) М
EASYBEATS, Music Goes Round My Head (U. Artists UP1201) ЕХ
DAVID EDE, Last Night (Pye 7315370) EX
BERN ELLIOTT & FENMEN, Money (Decca Ғ11770) EX
MAUREEN EVANS, Tomorrow Is Another Day (Oriole CB1806) ЕХ
MAUREEN EVANS, Like You Used To Do (Oriole CB1875) M
PAUL EVANS, Hushabye Little Guitar (London HLL9239) M
BETTY EVERETT & JERRY BUTLER, Smile (Fontana TF528) EX
FAMOUS MUSIC BAND, Nine By Nine (Philips 6006111) EX
F.B.I., | Wonder What She's Doing Tonight (A&M AMS/050, Demo)M
MIKE FELIX, Blueberry Hill (Decca F12701, Demo) EX
MIKE FELIX, You Belong To Me (Pye 7N17058) EX
FENDERMEN, Mule Skinner Blues (Top Rank JAR395) EX
JOHNNY FERGUSON, Angela Jones (MGM 1059) EX
FIREFLIES, | Cant Say Goodbye (London HLU9057) EX

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MAGGIE FITZGIBBON, I'll Walk Alone

(Page One POFO5/7, Pic. Cover) EX/M
FLAMINGOS, Love Walked In (Top Rank JAR213) EX
FLARES, Foot Stomping (London HLU9441) EX
FLEE, REKKERS, Sunday Date (Pye 7М15288) M
FLEE-REKKERS, Lone Rider (Piccadilly 7N35006) EX
FLEETWOODS, Mr. Blue (Top Rank FAR202) EX
FLEETWOODS, Come Softly To Me (Tri-London HLU8841) EX
WAYNE FONTANA & MINDBENDERS, Hello Josephine

(Fontana TF404) EX
WAYNE FONTANA, It's Just A Little Bit Too Late (Fontana TF579) М
EDDIE FONTAINE, Nothin’ Shakin’ (Tri-London HLM8711) EX
FOUR SEASONS, Ain’t That A Shame (Stateside 55194) EX
FOUR TOPS, Reach Out I'll Be There (Tamla TMG579) EX
FOUR TOPS, Walk Away Renee (Tamla TMG634) EX
DOTTY FREDERICK, Ricky (Top Rank JAR106) EX
THE FUN AND GAMES, We (МСА MU1083, Demo) M

BILLY FURY, I'm Lost Without You (Decca F12048, Demo Sticker)M
BILLY FURY, I'll Be Your Sweetheart (W. Bros K16402, Demo) М

BILLY FURY, Beyond Shadow Of A Doubt (Parl. R5658) EX
DON GIBSON, Blue Blue Day (Tri-RCA 1073) EX
DON GIBSON, Don't Tell Me Your Troubles (Tri-RCA 1150) M
WAYNE GIBSON, Kelly (Pye 7N15680) EX
GIBSONS, The Magic Book (Deram DM119) M
GIORGIO, Moody Trudy (MCA MK5023, Demo) M
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, No Fun At The Fair (U. Artists UP1166) ЕХ
BILL HALEY & COMETS, Candt Kisses (W. Bros WB6) M
TUBBY HAYES QUINTET, Sally (Fontana TF397) M
HEINZ, You Were There (Decca F11831) EX
HERD, Paradise Lost (Fontana TF8867) EX
RON HOLDEN, My Babe (London HLU9116) VG
BUDDY HOLLY, Early In The Morning (Tri-Coral Q72333) EX
BUDDY HOLLY, Bo Diddley (Coral 072463) EX
BUDDY HOLLY, What To Do (Coral 072419) M

BUDDY HOLLY, Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Coral Q72459) EX
HONEYCOMBS, Is It Because (Pye 7N15705, Demo Sticker) EX
HUDDERSFIELD TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Runaway

(Polydor 2001284) M
IVORY JOE HUNTER, I’m Hooked (Capitol CL15220) M
KRIS IFE, Give And Take (Music Factory CUB3, Demo) EX
KRIS IFE, Give And Take (Music Factory CUB3) EX
IVY THREE, Yogi (London HLW9178) EX
JAN & DEAN, Heart And Soul (London HLU9395) EX
JAN & DEAN, Norwegian Wood (Liberty LIB10225) EX
JAY & THE AMERICANS, Cara Mia (U. Artists UP1094) EX
PETER JAY & JAYWALKERS, Poet And Peasant (Decca F11659) EX
KRIS JENSEN, Torture (Fontana 267241TF) EX
JESTERS, Little Girl (RI 15) EX
PAUL JONES, Aquarius (Col. DB8514, Demo) M

JERRY KELLER, Here Comes Summer (Tri-London HLR8890) M
JOHNNY KIDD & PIRATES, Always And Ever (HMV POP1269) EX
MURRY KELLUM, Long Tall Texan (London HLU9830, Demo) M

BEN E. KING, Spanish Harlem (London HLK9258) EX
CLAUDE KING, Wolverton Mountain (CBS ААС108) EX
RAMONA KING, It's In His Kiss (W. Bros WB125) EX
EVELYN KINGSLEY, To Know Him Is To Love Him

(Cap. CL14944 Demo) EX
BUDDY KNOX, She's Gone (Liberty LIB55473) EX

RONNIE LANE, How Come (Gm GMS0118, Picture Cover) EX/M
STEVEN LANCASTER, San Francisco Street (Polydor 56215) EX

BRENDA LEE, Sweet Nuthin's (Bruns. 05819) EX
JIMMY LENNON, Louisiana Мата (Decca F11825) М
KETTY LESTER, But Not For Me (London HLN9574) EX

GARY LEWIS & PLAYBOYS, Paint Me A Picture (Liberty LIBB5914)EX
GARY LEWIS & PLAYBOYS, Count Ме In (Liberty LIB557 78) EX

JERRY LEE LEWIS, What'd | Say (London HLS9335) M
| JOHN LEYTON, Lonely City (HMV POP1014) EX
JOHN LEYTON, Lonely Rider (HMV РОР992) EX
LITTLE EVA, Loco-Motion (London HL9581) EX

LITTLE RICHARD, He Got What He Wanted (Mercury AMT1189) EX
GERRY LOCKRAN, Standing On Your Own (Decca F12919, Demo)M
JULIE LONDON, Boy On The Dolphin (Tri-London HLU8414) EX

LORD NELSON, | Got A Itch (Stateside 55189, Demo) EX
JERRY LORDAN, Who Could Be Bluer (Parl. R4637) М
JERRY LORDAN, I'll Stay Single (Parl. R4588) M
JIM LOWE, Four Walls (Tri-London HLD84 31) EX
LULU, Boom Bang A Bang (French Col. С00604053,

Pic. Cover) EX/EX
LULU, Let's Pretend (Col. DB8221) EX

ED. E. LYNCH, Sad Songs (Fontana TF609 Factory Sample) EX
NEIL MACARTHUR, She's Not There (Deram DM225, Demo) EX
AIMI MACDONALD, Ain't Nobody Gonna Touch

(Spinach 007, PC) EX/EX
MAGIC LANTERNS, Shame Shame (Camp 602007) M
MAMAS AND PAPAS, Monday Monday (RCA 1516) EX
MANCHESTER UNITED F.C., Manchester United

(Decca F13633, PC) EX/EX
BARRY MANN, Hey Baby I'm Dancin’ (HMV POP1084) M
CARL MANN, Pretend (London HLS9006) EX
SHADOW MANN, Come Live With Me (Roulette Ro504) EX
ERNIE MARESCA, Shout Shout (London HLU9531) EX
MARKETTS, Vanishing Point (W. Bros WB130, Demo) M
JOY MARSHALL, When You Hold Me Tight (Decca F11863, Demo)M
CHRIS MARTIN, Lonely Street (HMV POP664) EX
SUSAN MAUGHAN, Verdict Is Guilty (Philips BF1266) EX
MERSEYBEATS, Don't Turn Around (Fontana TF459) EX
MARILYN MICHAELS, Tell Tommy | Miss Him (RCA 1208) M
CHUCK MILLER, Auctioneer (Mercury AMTR1026) М
MILLIE, Sweet William (Fontana TF479) EX

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MOJOS, Everything's AI' Right (Decca F11853) EX
MOMENTS, Walk Right In (London HLN9658) EX
MOODY BLUES, Life's Not Life (Decca Ғ12543) EX
MOVE, Fire Brigade (Regal Zono RZ3005) EX
DAVID McCALLUM, Communication (Capitol CL15439) EX
PAUL McCOARTNEY, Helen Wheels (Apple R5993) EX
CHRIS McCLURE, Hazy People (Polydor 56227) M

CHAS McDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP, Sing Sing Sing

(Oriole CB1395) M
NATURALS, | Should Have Known Better (Parl. R5165) M
NERO & GLADIATORS, Czardas (Decca F11413, Demo) М
ЛМ NESBIT, Tiger In My Tank (Vocalion V9241, Demo) EX
NEW HOPE, Won't Find Better Than Me (London HL10296,

Demo) EX
BRAD NEWMAN, Somebody To Love (Fontana H357) EX
ONE TWO AND THREE, Black Pearl (Decca F12093, Demo) EX
ROY ORBISON, Crawling Back (London HLU10000) M
PACKABEATS, Gypsy Beats (Parl. R4/29) EX
BILL PARSONS, All American Boy (Tri-London HL8798) EX

PEENUTS, Theme From “Monkees”

(Ember EMBS242 Demo, Pic.Cover) КАЛМ
PETER & GORDON, Lady Godiva (Col. DB8003) EX
RAY PETERSON, | Could Have Loved You So Well (Lon. HLX987) EX
RAY PETERSON, Corrine Corrina (London HLX9246) ЕХ
PETS, Cha-Hua-Hua (Tri-London HL8652) EX

PHIL PHILLIPS & TWILIGHTS, Sea Of Love (Mercury AMT1059) EX
WILSON PICKETT, Don't Fight It (Atlantic АТ4052) M
PICKWICKS, Apple Blossom Time (Decca F11901, Demo) M
PILTDOWN MEN, Mcdonalds Cave (Capitol CL15149) M
SANDY POSEY, What A Woman In Live Won't Do ( МОМ 1335) EX

ELVIS PRESLEY, All Shook Up (Silver HMV POP359) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Paralyzed (Gold HMV POP378) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, One Night (Tri-RCA 1100) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, A Fool Such As | (Tri-RCA 1113) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Girl Of My Best Friend (RCA 1194) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Wooden Heart (RCA 1226) M
ELVIS PRESLEY, Kiss Me Quick (RCA 1375) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, She's Not You (RCA 1303) M
ELVIS PRESLEY, Ain't That Loving You Baby (RCA 1422) M
ELVIS PRESLEY, Blue Christmas (RCA 1430) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Crying In The Chapel (RCA 1455) M
ELVIS PRESLEY, Puppet On A String (RCA 1489) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Love Letters (RCA 1526) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, If Every Day Was Like Christmas (RCA 1557) ЕХ
ELVIS PRESLEY, Indescribably Blue (RCA 1565) EX

ELVIS PRESLEY, Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby (RCA 1714) ЕХ
ELVIS PRESLEY, Heartbreak Hotel (Maxi RCA 2104,

Maxi Cover) EX/EX
MIKE PRESTON, Mr. Blue (Tri-Decca F11167) EX
LLOYD PRICE, Where Were You On Our Wedding Day

(НМУ РОР588) М
LLOYD PRICE, I’m Gonna Get Married (HMV POP650) M
LLOYD PRICE, Lady Luck (HMV POP/12) EX
P.J. PROBY, Together (Decca F11967) M
P.J. PROBY, Somewhere (Liberty LIB10182) M
P.J. PROBY, You've Come Back (Liberty LIB10223) EX
P.J. PROBY, It's Your Day Today (Liberty LBF15046) EX
P.J. PROBY, | Need Love (FAB 2, Picture Cover) EX/M
P.J. PROBY, Let The Water Run Down (Liberty LIB10206) M
PROCOL HAREM, Homburg (Regal Zonophone RZ3003) EX
JUDD PROCTOR, Palamino (Parl. R4809) EX
GARY PUCKETT & UNION GAP, Over You (CBS 3714) EX
LEROY PULLINS, I’m A Nut (London HLR10056, Demo) ЕХ
JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY, | Can Remember (Bell ВИ 1008) EX
RAINDROPS, What A Girl (London HL9718) EX

RAINDROPS, Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget (London HL9 769) M
EDDIE RAMBEAU, My Name Is Mud (Stateside 55448, Demo) ЕХ
RAMBLER, Those Brown Eyes (Pye 7N17196) M
RAMRODS, Riders In The Sky (London HLU9232) EX
TEDDY RANDAZZO & DAZZLERS, Dance To Locomotion

(НМУ POP1067) Ex

RAN-DELLS, Martian Hop (London HLU60) M
OTIS REDDING, My Girl (Atlantic AT4050) EX
CLIFF RICHARD, I'll Love You Forever Today (Col. DB8437) M
CLIFF RICHARD, Flying Machine (Col. ОВ8797) EX
VIC RICHARDS, Jonathan Whatsit (Polydor 56163) EX
RIP CHORDS, Here | Stand (CBS AAG143) EX

RIP CHORDS, Gone (CBS AAG162, Small Number On Label) M
EILEEN RODGERS, Treasure Of Your Love (Fontana H156, Demo) M

MARK ROGERS & MARKSMEN, Bubble Pop (Parl. R5045) EX
MARK ROGERS & MARKSMEN, Bubble Pop (Parl. R5045, Demo)EX
ROLLING STONES, It's All Over Now (Decca Ғ11934) EX
ROLLING STONES, The Last Time (Decca F12104) EX
ROLLING STONES, Satisfaction (Boxed Decca F12220) М
CHAN ROMERO, Hippy Hippy Shake (Col. 0В4341) EX
RONNY % DAYTONAS, California Bound (Stateside 55367, Demo)EX
RONNY & DAYTONAS, Sandy (Stateside 55484) M
JIMMY RUFFIN, What Becomes Of Broken Hearted

(Tamla TMG577) EX
MIKE SAGAR & Cresters, Deep Feeling (HMV РОР819) EX
TOMMY SANDS, Sing Boy Sing (Capitol CL14834) M

LINDA SAXONE, Love Is Many Splendoured Thing (Pye 7М15624)ЕХ
SECOND CITY SOUND, A Touch Of Velvet etc.

(Major Minor MM600) EX
SECRETS, The Boy Next Door (Philips BF1298) EX
SEEKERS, Emerald City (Col. DB8313) M
SHADES OF BLUE, Oh! How Happy (Sue WI4022) EX
SHOW STOPPERS, Shake Your Mini (Beacon 3-106) M
RAY SINGER, You'll Come Crying То Me (Fontana TF621) M
PERCY SLEDGE, Out Of Left Field (Atlantic 584108) EX

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SNAPPERS, Big Bill (Top Rank JAR167) M
JIMMY SOLL, If You Wanna Be Happy (Stateside SS178) M
SPOTNICKS, Just Listen To My Heart (Oriole СВ1818) EX
JO STAFFORD, It Is No Secret (Gold Col. SCM5012) EX
5ТОСКІМС Tops, You're Never Gonna Get My Lovin'

(Toast TT500) M
ROBB STORME, Transistor Sister (Decca F11388) EX
SUPREMES, Baby Love (Stateside 55350) EX
FELICE TAYLOR, І Feel Love Comin' On (President PT155) EX

JOHNNIE TAYLOR, | Am Somebody (Stax 156, Demo Sticker) M

TEDDY BEARS, To Know Him Is To Love Him (Tri-London HLN8733)EX

TEEN BEATS, The Slop Beat (Top Rank JAR342) EX
NINO TEMPO & APRIL STEVENS, Whispering

(London HLK9829, Demo) EX
TERMITES, Every Day Every Day (CBS 201761, Demo) EX
THIN LIZZY, Randolph's Tango (Decca F13402) EX
PETER THOROGOOD, Haunted (Pye 7N17577, Demo) EX
JOHNNY TILLOTSON, It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’

(London HLA9550) EX
BABS TINO, Forgive Me (London HLR9589) VG
TIP TOPS, He's Braggin' (Cameo Parkway P868) EX
MEL TORME, Yes Indeed (Verve VS505, Demo) EX
TORNADOS, Love And Fury (Decca F11449) M
TORNADOS, Robot (Decca Ғ11606) EX
MITCHELL TOROK, When Mexico Gave Up The Rumba
(Bruns. 05586) EX
TRAFFIC, Hole In My Shoe (Island WIPG017) EX
TREMELOES, Suddenly You Love Me (CBS 3234) EX
TREMELOES, Me And My Life (CBS 5139) M
TRIPLETS, When Lovers Say Goodbye (President PT245) EX
MARCUS TRO, Tell Me (Ember EMBS203) EX
WILLIAM TRUCKAWAY, Bluegreens On The Wing

(Rep. К520842) EX
TRUTH, Girl (Pye 7N17035) EX
SAMMY TURNER, Always (London HLX8963) M
SAMMY TURNER, Paradise (London HLX9062) EX
CONWAY TWITTY, It's Only Make Believe (MGM 992) EX
CONWAY TWITTY, The Story Of My Love (MGM 1003) EX
TWO SMITH BROTHERS, Let Your Mind Roll On

(Decca F11578, Demo) EX
UNIT FOUR PLUS TWO, Never Been In Love Like This

(Decca F12144) EX
UNIVERSAL ENERGY, Universal Energy (Harvest НАН5138, Demo)M
PETER USTINOV, Mock Mozart (Gold Parl. MSP6012) EX

RICKY VALANCE, Why Can't We (Col. DB4592) EX
DANA VALERY, This Is My Prayer (Decca F11881, Demo) M
SARAH VAUGHAN, Careless (Mercury AMY1044, Demo) M
SARAH VAUGHAN, Broken Hearted Melody (Mercury AMT1057) M
SARAH VAUGHAN, If | Were A Bell (Mercury АМТ4511, Emo) M
BOBBY VEE, A Forever Kind Of Love (Liberty LIBT0046) M
BOBBY VEE, Stranger In Your Arms (Liberty LIB10124) EX
VENTURES, Perfidia (London HLG9232) EX
VENTURES, Lullaby Of The Leaves (London HLG9344) M
VENTURES, Blue Moon (London HLG9465) M

VERNONS GIRLS, Lover Please (Decca F11450) EX
MIKE VICKERS, Air On A G String (Col. DB8171, Demo) EX
VICKY, Colours Of Love (Philips BF1565) EX
VIGRASS, A New Man (RCA 1755) M
NICK VILLARD, High Noon M
GENE VINCENT, Wild Cat (Capitol CL15099) EX
GENE VINCENT, Frankie & Johnnie (Capitol CL15035) EX
GENE VINCENT, My Heart (Capitol CL15115) EX

BOBBY VINTON, Just As Much As Ever (Col. DB8346, Demo) ЕХ
VISCOUNTS, Don't Let Me Cross Over (Pye 7N15510, Demo) ЕХ

VISCOUNTS, On Broadway (Col. DB7436) EX
VOGUES, You're The One (London HLU9996) EX
VOGUES, Till (Reprise К520788) EX
VOGUES, No Not Much (Reprise RS23366, Demo) EX
ADAM WADE, Take Good Care Of Нег (HMV POP843) EX
WAILERS, Mau-Mau (London HL8994) VG
WALKER BROTHERS, My Ship Is Coming In (Philips BF1454) M
GARY WALKER, Twinkie Lee (CBS 202081) EX
JOHN WALKER, If | Promise (Philips BF1612) EX
JR. WALKER, Road Runner (Tamla TMG559) M
JR. WALKER, Take Me Girl I’m Ready (Tamla TMG840) EX
REM WALL, Heartsick And Blue (Top Rank JAR324) EX
WARM SOUNDS, Birds And Bees (Deram DM120) M
DILYS WATLING, Have Another Dream On Me

(Pye 7М17791, Demo) EX
THOMAS WAYNE, Tragedy (Tri, London HLU8846) EX
WEB, Baby Won't You Leave Me Alone (Deram DM217) M
CLARE WEBSTER, Life Can Have Meaning

(Hickery 45 1283, Demo) EX
WEDGWOODS, September In The Rain (Pye 7N15642) EX
BERT WEEDON, Sorry Robbie (Top Rank JAR517, Demo Sticker) M
HOUSTON WELLS, Only The Heartaches (Parl. R5031) EX
MARY WELLS, My Guy (Stateside 55288) EX
KEITH WEST, Excerpt From Teenage Opera (Parl. R5623) EX
WHO, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere (Bruns. 05935) EX
WHO, | Can't Explain (Brunswick 95926) М
WNO, А Legal Matter (Brunswick 05956) EX
WHO, I'm A Boy (Reaction 591004) EX
WHO, Happy Jack (Reaction 591010) EX
DANNY WILLIAMS, Today (HMV POP1305, Demo) M
JACKIE WILSON, To Be Loved (Tri-Coral 072306) EX
YOUNG RASCALS, A Girl Like You (Atlantic 584128) M
ZEPHERS, Whats All That About (Decca F11647) M
KEELE RAG RECORD, 1963 (Lyn 347 / 348) EX
KEELE RAG RECORD, 1964 (Lyn 509) EX

BARGAIN PACKS

15 x 50s / 60s Singles. All in at least Excellent condition. £15 + £2.00

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25 x bOs / 60s Singles. All in at least Excellent condition. £22.50 4- £2.50

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35 x 50s / 60s Singles. All in at least Excellent condition. £30 + £3.00

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EPs

BEATLES, Extracts From A Hard Days Night (Parl. GEP8920) М/М
RAY BUSH & AVON CITIES SKIFFLE, Vol. 1 (Tri- Tempo EXA40) M/M
RAY BUSH & AVON CITIES SKIFFLE, Vol. 2 (Tri, Tempo EXA50) M/M

DAKOTAS, Meet The Dakotas (Parl. GEP8888 EX/EX
JAMES DARREN, Hit Parade (Pye Int. МЕР44008) EX/EX
JAMES DARREN, P.S. | Love You (Pye Int. NEP44004) EX/EX
BILL DOGGETT, Honky Tonk (Parl. GEP8644) EX/EX

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FATS DOMINO, Blues For Love, Vol. 2 (Gold Tri-London REU1062)EX/EX19.50

FATS DOMINO, Carry On Rockin', Pt. 2 (Tri-London REP1116)EX/EX

37.50

FATS DOMINO, Here Comes Fats, Vol. З (Tri-London REP1138)EX/M 25.00

BOB DYLAN, Dylan (CBS EP6051) M/M

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ADAM FAITH, Adam's Hit Parade, Vol. 2 (Parl. GEP8841) M/M

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BILL HALEY & COMETS, Rock Around The Clock (Bruns. OE9250)EX/EX 9.50

PAUL JONES, Privilege (HMV 7EG8975) M/EX
CRIPPLE CLARENCE LOFTON, Same (Vogue EPV1209) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Good Rockin’ Tonight (HMV 7EG8256) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Love Me Tender (HMV 7EG8199) M/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Jailhouse Rock (Tri-RCA Rcz106) EX/EX
PRETTY THINGS, The Pretty Things (Fontana TE1/434) M/EX
RIKKI PRICE, Rikki (Fontana TFE17100) EX/M
CLIFF RICHARD, Holiday Carnival (Col. SEG8246) M/EX
CLIFF RICHARD, Summer Holiday (Col. SEG8250) EX/EX
CLIFF RICHARD, Dream (Col. SEG8119) M/EX
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff's Hits (Col. SEG8203) EX/EX
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff's Lucky Lips (Col. SEG8269) EX/EX

ROLLING STONES, Rolling Stones (Unboxed Decca DFE8560)EX/EX
ROLLING STONES, Five By Five (Unboxed Decca DFE8590) EX/EX

SEARCHERS, Bumble Bee (NEP24218) EX/VG
SHADOWS, Spotlight On (Col. SEG8135) EX/EX
SHADOWS, The Boys (Col. SEG8193) EX/EX
SHADOWS, Foot Tapping With (Col. SEG8268) EX/EX
SHADOWS, То The Fore (Col. SEG8094) EX/EX
HELEN SHAPIRO, Helen (Col. SEG8128) EX/EX
SIMON & GARFUKEL, Mrs. Robinson (CBS EP8400) EX/EX

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TOMMY TUCKER, Hi-Heel Sneakers (Pye Int. NEP44027) — VG/VG
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SEEDS, Can't Seem To Make You Mine (Vocalion VN 9287)EX

FLIES, House of Love (Decca F12594, Demo) EX
CHRISTINE PERFECT, When You Say Blue

(Blue Horiz 57-3165) EX
POETS, І Am So Blue (Decca F12195, Demo) EX
FIRE, Round the Gumtree (Decca F12856, Demo) EX
GLENDA COLLINS, If You Gotta Pick A Baby

(HMV POP 1233) EX
KALEIDOSCOPE, Jenny Artichoke (Font. TF 964) EX
VIRGIN SLEEP, Love (Deram DM146) EX
RUPERT'S PEOPLE, Reflections Of Charles Brown

(Col. DB 8226) EX
JERUSALEM, Kamakazi Moth (Deram DM 358, Demo) EX

SHOTGUN EXPESS, I Could Feel The Whole World...

(Col. DB 8025) EX
PRETTY THINGS, Private Sorrow (Col. DB 8494) EX
PRETTY THINGS, Talkin’ About The Good Times
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KIPPINGTON LODGE, Shy Boy (Parl. К 5645) EX
KEITH RELF, Mr Zero (Col. DB7920) EX
FIRST GEAR, The 'In" Crowd (Pye 7N 15763) EX

INCROWD, Where In the World (Deram, Demo DM 272) Ех
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GUN, Drives те Mad (CBS, Demo 4052) EX
FLEUR DE LYS, Stop Crossing The Bridge (Atlantic 584193)EX
COUNT FIVE, Psychotic Reaction (Pye 7N 25393) EX
YARDBIRDS, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Col. DB 7391)EX

YARDBIRDS, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Col. DB 8024)EX

MINDBENDERS, Schoolgirl (Font. TF87 7) M
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SHADES OF BLUE, Voodoo Blues (Parl. R5270) EX
? AND THE MYSTERIANS, | Need Somebody (Cameo C441)EX
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CHICKEN SHACK, Tears In The Wind (Blue Hor. 57-3160) EX

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TOOMORROW, | Could Never Live Without Your Love

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JOHNNY KIDD & PIRATES, Shakin’ All Over (НМУ POP 753) EX

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GENE VINCENT, A Gene Vincent Record Date, Part 1

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WHO, Ready Steady Who (Reaction 592 001) EX/EX
JAY & THE AMERICANS, Come A Little Bit Closer

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JADE WARRIOR, Self Titled (Vertigo Swirl 6360 033) ЕХ/ЕХ
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ІР PETE BROWN & PIBLOKTO, Thousands On А Raft
(Rare Harvest SHVL 782)
LP РЕТЕ BROWN & BATTERED ORNAMENTS, A Meal You
Can Shakes Hands With In The Dark (Harvest SHVL 752)EX/EX 200.00
LP BEGGARS OPERA, Act One (Vertigo Swirl 6360 018,
stunning copy) NM/NM 200.00
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LP APPLEJACKS, Applejacks (Decca Unboxed ІК 4635) EX/EX 125.00
LP HAWKWIND, Doremi Fasol Latido

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ІР SMALL FACES, Ogden's Nutgone Flake (Immed.

1st Lilac press IMLPO12, lovely copy) EX/EX 220.00
LP AYNSLEY DUNBAR, Remains To Be heard (Rare Liberty

Blue LBS 83316) EX/EX 155.00
LP PRETTY THINGS, Get The Picture? (Font. TL5280) ЕХ/ЕХ 150.00
LP PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, Get It On (rare B&C CAS 1003)EX/EX 80.00
LP 700Т MONEY & BIG ROLL BAND, It Should Have Been Ме

(Col. Blue/Black 33SX 1734) EX/EX 95.00
LP TROGGS, From Nowhere (Font. TL 5355) EX/EX 50.00
ІР PROCOL HARUM, Home (Regal Zon.

SLRZ 1014 w Lyric Sheet) VG/EX 65.00
LP HUMBLE PIE, As Safe As Yesterday

(Immediate IMSP 025) EX/EX 75.00
LP JETHRO TULL, Stand Up (Island Pink i label, ILPS 9103) EX/EX 75.00
LP DEEP PURPLE, The Book Of Taliesyn

(Harvest 3rd Press, SHVL 751) EX/EX 40.00
ІР ELECTRIC PRUNES, The Electric Prunes

(Reprise RLP 6248) EX/EX 125.00
LP ELECTRIC PRUNES, Underground (Reprise R 6262) EX/EX 85.00
LP ELECTRIC PRUNES, Mass іп F Minor (Reprise КІР 6275) ЕХ/ЕХ 95.00
LP QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE, Comin’ Thru

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LP TROGGS, Cellophane (Page One POL 003) VG/EX 40.00

LP LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS, Penitentiary Blues (Font. 688 007 ZL)EX/EX 30.00

LP HOLLIES, For Certain Because (Parl. Y/b РМС 7011) ЕХ/М 45.00
LP DOWNLINERS SECT, The Country Sect

(Col. Blue/Black 33SX 1745) VG/EX 80.00
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45 GLASS TIGER, Don't Forget Me (Manhattan ‘86, PS) EX 5.00
45 T JACKSON / VBSI, Bye Bye Baby (Pye '64, Promo) EX 30.00
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45 VAL DOONICAN, Memories Are Made Of This (Decca “66) ЕХ 4.00
45 BEATLES, Please Please Me (Parlophone '63) VG 15.00
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45 RITA MACNEIL, Working Man (Polydor '90) EX 4.00
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45 MIKE SARNE, Hello Lover Boy (Parlophone '63) EX 10.00
45 CONNIE FRANCIS, Lipstick On Your Collar (MGM '59, noc) EX 9.00
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45 АНТ GARFUNKEL, Bright Eyes (CBS '78) EX 5.00
45 ANITA HARRIS, Loving You (CBS '69) VG 5.00
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45 NED MILLER, From A Jack To A King (London '62) EX 6.00
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45 OSIBISA, Тһе Warrior (Bronze ‘78, пос) VG 5.00
45 CLIFF BENNETT, Eyes For You (Parlophone '66) EX 12.00
45 AL HUDSON / PARTNERS, You Can Do It (MCA / US '79, noc)EX 4.00
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EP THE MOVE, Something Else From The Move

(33.3 Regal Zonophone) EX 75.00
ЕР FATS DOMINO, Неге Comes Fats, Vol. 3 (London "58, Tri) VG 30.00
EP ROLLING STONES, Got Live If You Want It

(Unboxed Decca '68) EX 40.00
LP SUPREMES, Greatest Hits (STML 11256

Tamla Motown '73) EX 15.00
LP МАМТОУАМІ, FOUR Pastoral Moves (Decca "59, 10") EX 10.00
LP S/T, Music Never On Sunday (Hallmark '60) EX 8.00
LP JIM REEVES, Good 'n' Country (RCA Camden '63) EX 8.00
LP ORIG. CAST, Mack & Mabel (ABC / US '74) EX 8.00
LP ROXY MUSIC, Siren (Island '75) EX 15.00
LP NEW SEEKERS, We'd Like To Teach... (Polydor ‘72) EX 8.00
LP ROYAL PHILHARMONIC, Hooked On Classics (K-Tel '81) EX 10.00
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LP SPATS, Spats (Good Sounds / US '78) EX

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LP BRECKER BROTHERS, Don't Stop Music (51007) EX 18.00
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LP LONNIE JORDAN (WAR), Many Moods Of Me (MCA 3526) EX
LP JOHN KLEMMER, Hush (Elektra SE 527, Red) EX
LP JOHN KLEMMER, Arabesque (ABC AA1068, Import) EX
LP NEIL LARSEN, High Gear (Horizon SP/38, LTSRF, Import) G
LP DAVID LIEBMAN, Sweet Hands (Horizon SP702, Import) EX
LP CURTIS MAYFIELD, Sweet Exorcist (Buddah 5001) EX
LP JIM MULLEN, Thumbs Up (Coda 4) EX
LP CHUCK MANGIONE, Feels So Good (AM 64658) EX
LP CHUCK MANGIONE, Fun & Games (АМ 63715) EX
LP CHUCK MANGIONE, Love Notes (82, CBS 85879) EX
LP CHUCK MANGIONE, Soundtrack: Children Of Sanchez

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LP MODERN JAZZ QUARTET, Sun Dance (Plum, AT 588126) EX
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ІР GIL SCOTT HERON, Real Eyes (Arista 9540, Import, 80) ЕХ
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LP MARK SOSKIN, Rhythm Vision (P0109) EX
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LP SONNY ROLLINS, Saxophone Colossus

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LP MEL TORME / BUDDY RICH, Together Again (RCA 25178) ЕХ
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SIMPLE MINDS, Glittering Prize
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JUDY COLLINS, A Tribute (Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez etc.)

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ANNIE LENNOX, Diva

MEATLOAF & BONNIE TYLER, Heaven And Hell
KYLIE M, Aphrodite

WILLIE NELSON, Red Headed Stranger

WAYLON JENNINGS & WILLIE NELSON, Old Friends
THE PIXIES, Doolittle

BAD COMPANY, 10 From 6

JOURNEY, The Best Of

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THE THE, Mind Bomb

SOFT CELL, Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

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DUSK OF DELUSION, Watch Your 6

HORIZON ABLAZE, Spawn

HIGH ON FIRE, Electric Messiah

BOYS NIGHT OUT, Make Yourself Sick

FROM BENEATH BELLOWS, Monolith
SUPERSUCKERS, Suck It

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RITCHIE BUTCHER’S RAINBOW, Vormarts (Concert Edition)
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ROD STEWART & RONNIE WOOD, Unplugged
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THE B525, Best Of

THE STRANGLERS, Best Of

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, The Best Of

DVD BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, Complete Film Performance

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DON McLEAN, American Pie: Best Of
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ARETHA FRANKLIN, A Rose Is Still A Rose
GUNS AND ROSES, The Spaghetti Incident

2CD EVERLY BROTHERS, Best Of + More

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FIFTY NUMBER ONE HITS OF THE 50s
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LITTLE RICHARD, The Genius Of

COLEMAN HAWKINS, Ken Burns Jazz

GLAM ROCK GREATS, Same

JOE COCKER, The Essential

BADLY DRAWN BOY, The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
PAULA COLE, This Fire

THE ZUTONS, Who Killed The Zutons

THE STONE ROSES, Second Coming

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, Blue Jeans And Moon Beams

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DVD GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS, Live In '99

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ALBERT LEE & HOGAN'S HEROES, Live At Montreux
TAJ MAHAL, Best Of

GRATEFUL DEAD, American Beauty

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, Hard Promises
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PRO PATRIA MORI, Where Shadows Lie

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RED LONDON, Symphony For The Skins

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LES PARTISANS, Les Partisans

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PLAY DEAD, From The Promised Land

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THE POGUES, Red Roses For Me (SEEZ 55) EX/EX
POP GROUP, For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate

Mass Murder EX/EX

POST MORTEM, Better Off Dead (17 trk retro. from 2016)NEW

PROPAGANDA, Propaganda (Index Rec., 1981 Power pop)M/M
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PUBLIC IMAGE LTD, The Flowers Of Romance

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QUOD MASSACRE, Kje Je Odgovor!

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RADIKAL HARD CORE, Veganza (1988 album, Spanish) VG/M
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ROSETTA STONE, Caught In The Act (1979,
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Dance On (Columbia DB 4948) EX
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Atlantis (Columbia DB 7047) EX
Shindig (Columbia DB 7106) EX
Geronimo (Columbia DB 7163) EX
Theme For Young Lovers (Columbia DB 7231) EX
The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt (Columbia DB 7261) EX
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Mary Anne (Columbia DB 7476) EX

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І Met A Girl (Columbia DB 7853) EX
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Let Me Be The One (EMI 2269) EX
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The Shadows, No. 3 (Columbia SEG 8166) EX/EX
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The Boys (Columbia SEG 8193) EX/EX
Dance On (Columbia SEG 8233) EX/EX
Los Shadows (Columbia SEG 8278) EX/EX
Shindig (Columbia SEG 8286) EX/EX
Those Brilliant (Columbia SEG 8321) EX/EX
Dance With (Columbia SEG 8342) EX/EX
Dance With, No. 3 (Columbia SEG 8408) EX/EX
Shadows (Spain HMV EPL 13.911) EX/EX
The Dreams | Dream (Spain HMV EPL.14.311) EX/M
The Shadows (Columbia 33SX 1374)(St./EX/VG/I5.00) EX/VG
Out Of The Shadows (Columbia 33SX 1458) EX/VG
Greatest Hits (Columbia 33SX 1522) EX/M
Dance With (Columbia 33SX 1619) (St./EX/EX/15.00) EX/EX

The Sound Of (Columbia 335Х 1736) (St./EX/VG/10.00)EX/VG

More Hits (Columbia 33SX 1791) EX/EX
Shadow Music (Columbia SCX 6041) EX/EX
Jigsaw (Columbia SX 6148) (St./EX/VG/IO.00) EX/M
From Hank, Bruce, Brian & John (Columbia SX 6199) EX/EX
Somethin' Else (Starline SRS 5012) EX/M
Shades Of Rock (Columbia SCX 6420) EX/EX
Walkin’ (МЕР 1388) (Bench Cover) EX/M/

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Mustang (MFP 5266) EX/EX
Shades Of Rock (Columbia SCX 6420) EX/VG
Rockin’ With Curly Leads (EMI EMA 762, GF) EX/M
Specs Appeal (EMI EMC 3066) EX/M
Live At The Paris Olympia (EMI EMC 3095) EX/M
The Shadows Live (МЕР 1018) EX/M
Rarities (EMI NUT 2) EX/EX
Another String Of Hot Hits (EMI EMC 3339)
(MFPA156301/EX/EX/10.00) EX/M
Tasty (EMI EMC 3195) EX/M
Shadows At The Movies (MFP 50347) EX/M
String Of Hits (EMI EMC 3310) EX/M
Steppin' To The Shadows (Polydor SHAD 30) EX/M
shadows Collection (Contour CN 2104) EX/M
Diamonds (Pickwick PWKLPS 4318P) EX/M
Themes & Dreams (Polydor 511 374-1) EX/M
20 Golden Greats, Vol. 2 (New Zealand HMV NZ 23) EX/M

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BEATLES, Ob-La-Di (Rare Japan, unique PS) EX/EX
DAVID BOWIE, A Beginners (Rare Japan) EX/EX
DAVID BOWIE, В.К. Swinging (UK Pic Disc) -/EX
MADNESS, In The City (Rare Japan, unique PS) EX/EX
BEATLES, Savage (Japan 10" + bonus 7" + OBI) EX/EX
BEATLES, 2nd Album (Rare Japan + OBI) EX/EX
BEATLES, Rarities (Rare Japan + OBI) EX/EX
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SELECTER, Т.М Pressure (Clear vinyl LP + 7”) EX/EX
T. REX, In Concert (Rare Japan Promo LP + OBI) EX/EX

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ELVIS PRESLEY, Rock 'n' Roll No. 2 (RCA Victor SF 7528) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, U.S. Male (RCA CDS 1150) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Easy Come, Easy Go (RCA CDS 1146) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Separate Ways (RCA CDS 1118) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Pictures Of (RCA HY 1023) EX/EX
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ELVIS PRESLEY, Blue Hawaii (RCA SF 8145) EX/M
ELVIS PRESLEY, Gold Records (RCA SF 7924) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Rock 'n' Roll No. 1 (RCA SF 8233) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Gold Records (RCA SF 7630) EX/EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, King Creole (RCA SF 8231) EX/EX

ROLAND SHAW, James Bond In Action (1967, Decca 4125) EX/EX

PAUL McCARTNEY, Ram (1971, Apple PAS 10003)

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GEORGE BENSON QUARTET, It's Uptown (Columbia CS 9325)EX/EX

MOOD MUSIC LIBRARY (1976, C Brull Ltd. CBW 668)
COCO BRIAVAL QUARTET, Lazy Night In Paris (Polydor 236558)EX/EX
JOEY DEE & STARLIGHTERS, Hitsville (Jubilee 8000)
SHADOWS, Silver Album (1983, TellyDisc 22, 2LP)

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BUDDY KNOX, JACK SCOTT + 2, Live In London 1977 (Harvest) M

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TROY SEALS, Honky Tonk Dreams (US Columbia 3-10227) EX
SEARCHERS, Sweet Nothin's (Philips BF 1274, wol) EX
SEARCHERS, Sweets For My Sweet (Pye 7N.15533) EX

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SEARCHERS, Don't Throw Your Love Away (7N.15630)
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SEARCHERS, Needles And Pins (RCA 2248) M
SEARCHERS, Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya (Pye NEP 24177) EX/VG
SEARCHERS, Bumble Bee (Pye NEP 24218) EX/EX
SEARCHERS, Meet The Searchers (Pye NPL 18086) EX/VG
SEARCHERS, Sugar & Spice (Pye NPL 18089) EX/VG
SEARCHERS, It's The Searchers (Pye NPL 18092) EX/VG
SEARCHERS, Smash Hits (Marble Arch MAL 640) EX/EX

SEARCHERS, It's The Searchers (Marble Arch MALS 798)EX/EX

SEARCHERS, Golden Hour (Golden Hour CH 541) EX/EX
SEARCHERS, Needles & Pins (Hallmark HMA 203) EX/EX
SEARCHERS, Searchers (Sire SRA 6082 + in.sl)

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SEARCHERS, Hits Collection (PRT PYL 4002) EX/EX
SEARCHERS, Spotlight On (PRT Spot 1014) EX/EX
SEARCHERS, Pop Gold (Germany Pye 34 453 1) EX/M
SEARCH PARTY, Urban Foxes (Magnet MAG 222, PS) ЕХ/М

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AL SEARS ALL STARS, No. 2 (Parlophone СЕР 8688) EX/EX

J.T. SEARS, Walking On New Grass (US Boone 1058, Promo)EX

SEASHELLS, Maybe | Know (CBS 8218, mol)
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H.H. Corbett etc. (Topic 205) EX/M
SEASONS BEST (VA), Clooney, Mathis, Laine etc.

(CBS Embassy 31606) EX/EX

В.В. SEATON, Wasn't It Made For Us All (Trench Town TRE 2)EX
SEAWIND, Seawind (US A&M SP 4824 + inner sleeve) EX/EX

JOHN SEBASTIAN, Magical Connection (Reprise RS 20902)VG
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Welcome Back (Reprise K 14434) EX

JOHN SEBASTIAN, John B. Sebastian

(Reprise RSLP 6379, GF) EX/EX
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Real Live John Sebastian

(Reprise K 44127) EX/M
JOHN SECADA, If You Go (SBK 51, PS) EX/M
HARRY SECOMBE, Misere (Philips PB 851) EX
HARRY SECOMBE, Jerusalem (Philips PB 974) EX

HARRY SECOMBE, Bless This House (Philips PB 1083) EX
HARRY ЅЕСОМВЕ, If | Ruled The World (Philips BF 1261) М
HARRY SECOMBE, Unforgiving Heart (Philips 326573 BF) M
HARRY SECOMBE, This Is My Song (Philips BF 1539) м

HARRY SECOMBE, Showcase (Philips BBL 7387) EX/EX
HARRY SECOMBE, Personal Choice (Philips BETS 707) EX/M
HARRY SECOMBE, The Best Of (Readers Digest,

Boxed, 4 LPs) EX/M

SECOND CITY SOUND, Tchaikovsky One (Decca F 12310) EX
SECOND GENERATION, Second Generation
(Philips 6308 104)

SECOND IMAGE, Can't Keep Holding On
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(Polydor POSP 512, PS) EX/M
SECRET, The Young Ones (Arista 142) M
SECRET, The Secret (Oval AMLH 68504) EX/EX
SECRET AFFAIR, Time For Action (I-Spy SEE 1) M
SECRET AFFAIR, Let Your Heart Dance (І-5ру SEE З) M

SECRET AFFAIR, Sound Of Confusion (I-Spy SEE 8, PS) EX/M
SECRET HARTS, Dance Like Boy Dance Like Girl

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NEIL SEDAKA, | Go Ape (RCA Tri 1115) VG
NEIL SEDAKA, You Gotta Learn Your Rhythm And Blues

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NEIL SEDAKA, Oh! Carol (RCA 1152) (EX/Tri/8.00) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Stairway To Heaven (RCA 1178) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Run Samson Run (RCA 1198) M
NEIL SEDAKA, Calendar Girl (RCA 1220) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Little Devil (RCA 1236) EX

NEIL SEDAKA, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen (RCA 1266) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (RCA 1298) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Next Door To An Angel (RCA 1319, Promo) EX

NEIL SEDAKA, Bad Girl (RCA 1368) VG
NEIL SEDAKA, Beautiful You (RCA 2269) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, That's When The Music Takes Me

(RCA 2310) (EX/Promo/8.00) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Let's Go Steady Again (RCA PB 9101)
(М/Ргото/8.00) м
NEIL SEDAKA, You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine

(Polydor 2230 102) M
NEIL SEDAKA, The Hungry Years (Polydor 2058 113) EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Going Nowhere (Polydor 2058 457) EX.
NEIL SEDAKA, Laughter In The Rain (Polydor 2058 494) ЕХ
NEIL SEDAKA, Bad Blood (Polydor 2058 532) M
NEIL SEDAKA, The Queen Of 1964 (Polydor 2058 546) ЕХ
NEIL SEDAKA, Amarillo (Polydor 2058 888) M
NEIL & DARA SEDAKA, Your Precious Love (MCA 860) M
NEIL SEDAKA, The Diary (US RCA 47-7408) EX

NEIL SEDAKA, Vol. 2 (RCA RCX 186, wobc) EX/EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Neil's Best (US RCA LPC-105, 33.3 rpm) EX/EX

NEIL SEDAKA, Sounds Of Sedaka (MCA MCF 2780) EX/M
NEIL SEDAKA, Oh Carol (Camden INTS 1131) EX/EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Emergence (RCA SF 8248) EX/M
NEIL SEDAKA, Solitaire (RCA SF 8324) EX/EX
NEIL SEDAKA, The Tra La Days Are Over

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NEIL SEDAKA, On Stage (RCA INTS 1486) EX/M
NEIL SEDAKA, Live At The Royal Festival Hall
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NEIL SEDAKA, Overnight Success (Polydor 2442 131, GF)EX/M

NEIL SEDAKA, Steppin’ Out (Polydor 2442 143 + insert)5EX/M

NEIL SEDAKA, The 505 & 60's (RCA PL 12254) EX/EX
NEIL SEDAKA, Laughter & Tears (Polydor 2383 399) EX/M
NEIL SEDAKA, Collection (Camden PDA 008) EX/M
NEIL SEDAKA, In The Pocket (Polydor POLS 1022) EX/M

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NEIL SEDAKA, All You Need Is The Music

(US Elektra 6E-161, GF) EX/M
TOMMY SEEBACH, Disco Tango (EMI 2934,

Danish Eurovision) EX
SEEDY SOUND HELLO CHEEKY (VA), B Cryer,
T Brooke-Taylor (EMC 3112) EX/M
PEGGY SEEGER & EWAN MaCCOLL,

We Are The Engineers (AUEW 1, PS) EX/EX
PEGGY SEEGER, Penelope Isn't Waiting Anymore
(Blackthorne 1050 + bk) EX/EX
PEGGY SEEGER, Different Therefore Equal

(Blackthorne 1061 + insert) ЕХ/М
P.SEEGER/E.MacCOLL, Items Of News

(Blackthorne 1067 + insert) EX/EX
PEGGY SEEGER, Familiar Faces

(Blackthorne BR 1069 + insert) EX/EX
P.SEEGER/E.MacCOLL, Freeborn Man

(East Germany Amiga 845367) EX/M
PETE SEEGER, Careless Love (Top Rank TR 5020) VG
PETE SEEGER, Little Boxes (CBS AAG 187, wol) EX
PETE SEEGER, In Concert (CBS AAG 20055) EX/EX

PETE SEEGER, 'D' Day Dodgers (Ember EMB EP 4560) EX/EX
PETE SEEGER, | Can See A New Day (CBS BPG 62462) EX/EX
PETE SEEGER, Strangers And Cousins (CBS BPG 62528)EX/EX

PETE SEEGER, Folk Songs (Capitol W 2172)
PETE SEEGER, In Person (Verve Folkways VLP 5004)

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PETE SEEGER, Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Water

(CBS SBPG 63061) EX/EX
PETE SEEGER, Rainbow Race (CBS 64445) EX/M
P.SEEGER / A. GUTHRIE, Together In Concert

(Rep. К64023, wol, sobc) EX/EX
PETE SEEGER, Can't You See This System's Rotten
(Greenwich 234) EX/M

SEEKERS, I'll Never Find Another You (Columbia DB 7431) EX

SEEKERS, A World Of Our Own (Columbia DB 7532) EX
SEEKERS, The Carnivalls Over (Columbia DB 7711) M
SEEKERS, Someday, One Day (Columbia DB 7867) EX
SEEKERS, Walk With Me (Columbia DB 8000) EX
SEEKERS, Morningtown Ride (Columbia DB 8060) M
SEEKERS, When Will The Good Apples Fall

(Columbia DB 8273) EX
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SEEKERS, Hits From The Seekers (Columbia SEG 8496)EX/EX

SEEKERS, The Seekers (Decca LK 4694) EX/EX
SEEKERS, A World Of Our Own (Columbia SX 1722) EX/M
SEEKERS, Come The Day (Columbia SX 6093)
(St./EX/EX/10.00) EX/EX
SEEKERS, Seen In Green (Columbia SX 6193, GF) EX/EX
SEEKERS, The Best Of (Columbia SX 6268) EX/EX
SEEKERS, Live At The Talk Of The Town
(Columbia SCX 6278) EX/M
SEEKERS, This Is (South Africa EMI CEY (M) 229) EX/EX
SEEKERS, A World Of Our Own (Readers Digest,
Boxed, 5 LPs) EX/EX
JEANNIE SEELY, I’m Afraid | Lied (US Decca 32964) М
SEEMON & MARIJKE, Vegetable Stew
(A&M AMS 884, Promo) M
BOB SEGER, Katmandu (Capitol CL 15831, Promo) EX
BOB SEGER, We've Got Tonite (Capitol CL 16028) M
BOB SEGER, Till It Shines (Capitol CL 16073) EX
BOB SEGER, Hollywood Nights (Capitol CL 223, PS) EX/EX
BOB SEGER, Shame On The Moon
(Capitol CL 275, Poster, PS) EX/M

BOB SEGER, Night Moves (Capitol EA-ST 11557 + in.sl)EX/M

BOB SEGER, Stranger In Town

(Capitol EA-ST 11698 + in.sl) (Promo/EX/EX/10.00) EX/EX
BOB SEGER, Against The Wind (Capitol EA-ST 12041

+ in.sl) EX/M
BOB SEGER, The Distance (Capitol EST 12254 + in.sl)
(Promo/EX/M/10.00) EX/M
SEGOVIA, Three Centuries Of The Guitar

(US Decca DL 710034) EX/EX

HUBERT SELBY, Love To Hear You Singing (Stetone 001,

Autographed) EX/M
SELDOM SCENE, Act Four (US Sugar Hill 3709) EX/EX
SELDOM SCENE, At The Scene

(Canada Sugar Hill SH-3736) EX/M
SELECTER, Three Minute Hero (2 Tone CHS TT 8,

Paper Ibl + sleeve) EX
SELECTER, Missing Words (2 Tone CHS TT 10) EX
SELECTER, The Whisper (Chrysalis CHS 51, PS) EX/EX
MARILYN SELLARS, One Day At A Time

(US Zodiac ZLP, 5001) EX/EX
PETER SELLERS, Any Old Iron (Parlophone R 4337) EX
PETER SELLERS, I'm So Ashamed (Parlophone R 4491) ЕХ

PETER SELLERS, Puttin' On The Style (Parlophone R 4605)EX

P. SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN, Goodness Gracious Me

(Parlophone R 4702) M
P. SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN, Bangers And Mash
(Parlophone R 4724) EX

PETER SELLERS, A Hard Day's Night (Parlophone R 5393) EX
PETER SELLERS, They're Parking Camels
(U.A. BP 335, Promo)

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ЕР РЕТЕН SELLERS, The Best Of (Parlophone СЕР 8770) ЕХ/ЕХ
EP P. SELLERS & PETER USTINOV, Two Peters
(Parlophone GEP 8853) EX/M

10" LP PETER SELLERS, The Best Of (Parlophone PMD 1069)EX/M
LP PETER SELLERS, Songs For Swingin’ Sellers

(Parlophone PMC 1111) EX/EX
LP PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN, Peter & Sophie

(Parlophone PMC 1131) EX/EX
LP PETER SELLERS, The Best Of (Starline MRS 5157) ЕХ/М

LP PETER SELLERS, The Parkinson Interview (ВВС КЕН 402)EX/EX
45 SEMPRINI, The Golden Destiny (HMV Gold POP 384) EX
45 SEMPRINI, Exodus (HMV POP 842) EX
ЕР SEMPRINI, Piano Music You Love (HMV TEG 8611) EX/EX
EP SEMPRINI, Piano Music You Love, No. 2 (НМУ 7EG 8/O3)EX/M
LP | SEMPRINI, Magic Moments (Starline SRS 5057) EX/M
45 SENATORS, l'm Always Sorry Now (Virgin VS 1308, PS) EX/M
45 SENSATIONS, Let Me In (Pye Int. 7N 25128, mol) EX

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45 SENSE, Holding On (Carrere CAR 295, PS) EX/M

45 SENSE, Reasons For Living (Carrere CAR 302, PS) EX/M

45 SENSELESS THINGS, Easy To Smile
(Epic 657695 7, PS, Pink vinyl) EX/EX

45 SENSELESS THINGS, Hold It Down (Epic 657926 7, PS,
Orange vinyl) EX/M

45 SENSELESS THINGS, Homophobic Asshole (Epic 6588337, PS, White
vinyl) EX/M

45 SENSELESS THINGS, Primary Instinct (Epic 6589407, PS, Pink vinyl)
EX/M 6.00

LP КЕММҮ SERATT, Give Me A Title (US ASR 011, Autographed)EX/M

45 SERENADERS, Sudden Holiday (Top Rank JAR 111) VG

45 SERENDIPITY SINGERS, Don't Let The Rain (Philips BF 1333)VG

45 SERENDIPITY SINGERS, Plastic (Philips BF 1463) M

45 SERENDIPITY SINGERS, The Way West (U. Artists UP 1184)VG

LP SERENDIPITY SINGERS, Serendipity Singers (Philips BL 7620)
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LP SERENDIPITY SINGERS, Sings Of Love (Philips BL 7685) ЕХ/М

LP SERENDIPITY SINGERS, We Belong Together (Philips BL 7720)
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45 SERGEANT FROG, Butterfly Ball (Safari SAFE 51, PS) EX/M

45 SERINO, | Had Тһе Craziest Dream (Pye Int. 7М.25055) VG

LP SESSION MEN, Beatle Music (World Records T 758) EX/M

LP SESSION MEN, Hits T. Jones & Engelbert (МЕР 5207) EX/EX

45 CAMILO SESTO, Shoulder To Shoulder (Ariola ARO 296) M
45 SETTLERS, Woman Called Freedom (Pye 7N.15965) M
45 SETTLERS, The Lightning Tree (York SYK 505, mol) EX
LP SETTLERS, Sing Out (Decca LK 4645) EX/M
LP SETTLERS, Call Again (Marble Arch MAL 1226) EX/EX
LP SETTLERS, Alive (Columbia SCX 6381) EX/M
LP SETTLERS, Lightning Tree (York FYK 405) EX/EX

45 TAJA SEVELLE, Love Is Contagious (Reprise М 8257, PS)EX/M

45 SEVEN, Man With A Vision (Polydor POT 7, PS) EX/M
45 SEVEN MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL, Little Jesus

Epic 3954, Promo) M
45 SEVEN SEAS, Super Jaws (Jay Boy BOY 98) (EX/Promo/6.00)EX
45 1776, Oh Suzanna (Galaxy GY 106) M
ІР Tth. VOYAGE OF SINBAD, Film (U. Artists UAS 29763, RI)EX/M
45 SEVENTH NAVE, Metropolis (Gull GULS З, Promo) M
LP SEVENTH NAVE, Things To Come (Gull GULP 1001) EX/M

45 SEVERED HEAD, Heavy Metal (Plastic Canvas 002, PS) EX/EX
45 DAVID SEVILLE, Armen’s Theme (London Tri HLU 8359, mol)VG
45 DAVID SEVILLE, Witch Doctor (London Tri HLU 8619) EX
45 DAVID SEVILLE, Alvin's Harmonica (London Tri HLU 8823) ЕХ
45 DAVID SEVILLE, Ragtime Cowboy Joe (London Tri HLU 8916).EX
45 DAVID SEVILLE, Alvin's Orchestra (London HLG 9061). EX

LP DAVID SEVILLE, Let's All Sing (London SAH-U 6054) EX/EX
45 SEX PISTOLS, My Way (Virgin VS 220, PS) EX/EX
45 SEX PISTOLS, Something Else (Virgin VS 240, PS). EX/EX
45 SEX PISTOLS, Silly Thing (Virgin VS 256, PS) EX/EX
45 SEX PISTOLS, C'mon Everybody (Virgin VS 272) EX/EX

LP SEX PISTOLS, Never Mind The Bollocks (Virgin V 2086) EX/VG
LP SEX PISTOLS, Some Product (Virgin VR 2) EX/EX
45 S-EXPRESS, Theme From S-Express

(Rhythm King 90425, PS)
45 S-EXPRESS, Superfly Guy (Rhythm King LEFT 28, PS)

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LP DANNY SEYTON & SABRES, It's The Gear (Wing WL 1032)EX/EX

45 SHABBA BANKS, Family Affair (Addams Family)
(Atlas 304, PS)

45 SHACKLEFORDS, Big River (w. LEE HAZLEWOOD)
(Merc. AMT 1204) EX

45 SHADE OF SOUL, I'll Take The Hurt (US Sunburst 530) М

LP SHADES OF FOLK (VA), Felix, Carthy etc.

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(Contour 6870 538) EX/M
LP SHADES OF GREEN, Rockin’ Poppin’ Ravin’

(Windmill WMD 164) EX/EX
45 JOHNNY SHADOW / DANNY GAVAN, Golli Golli

(Pye 7N.15506, PS) (EX/6.00) ЕХ/М
21Р SHAFT, Film (Isaac Hayes) (Stax 2659 ОО?) EX/EX

45 BOBBY SHAFTO, Over And Over (Parlophone R 4870) VG
45 BOBBY SHAFTO, Feel So Blue (Parlophone R 4958) M
45 BOBBY SHAFTO, She's My Girl (Parlophone R 5130) VG
45 SHAG, Loop Di Love (UK 7) EX
45 SHAGGY, In The Summertime (Virgin VS 1542, PS) EX/EX
45 SHAKATAK, Living In The USA (Polydor POSP 230) M
45 SHAKATAK, Brazilian Dawn (Polydor POSP 282) EX

45 SHAKATAK, Easier Said Than Done (Polydor POSP 375, PS)EX/EX

45 SHAKATAK, Night Birds (Polydor POSP 407, PS) EX/M
45 SHAKATAK, Streetwalkin’ (Polydor POSP 453, PS) EX/M
45 SHAKATAK, Invitations (Polydor POSP 502, PS) EX/M
45 SHAKATAK, Stranger (Polydor POSP 530, PS) EX/M
45 SHAKATAK, Dark Is The Night (Polydor POSP 595, PS) EX/M
LP SHAKATAK, Night Birds (Polydor POLS 1059) EX/EX

45 JOHN SHAKESPEARE, The World At Their Feet

(Pye 7N. 17942, wol) VG
45 SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER, You're History (FFRR F 112, PS)EX/M
45 SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER, Goodbye Cruel World

(London LOB 322, PS) EX/M
LP SHAKEY CITY SEVEN + ONE, Play Seattle, USA

(Esquire 32-194) EX/EX
EP SHAKIN’ PYRAMIDS, Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll

(Virgin VS 415, PS) EX/EX

45 SHAKIN’ PYRAMIDS, Just A Memory (Virgin VS 505, PS)EX/M

LP SHAKTI / JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, Handful Of Beauty (CBS S 81664)
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45 SHALAMAR, Take That To The Bank (RCA EB 1379) EX

45 SHALAMAR, The Second Time Around (Solar FB 1709) EX

45 SHALAMAR, I Owe You One (Solar 50-11) M

45 SHALAMAR, | Can Make You Feel Good (Solar К 12599, PS)EX/M
45 SHALAMAR, A Night To Remember (Solar К 13162, PS) EX/EX
45 SHALAMAR, There It Is (Solar К 13194, PS) EX/M

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SHALAMAR, Dead Giveaway (Solar E 9819, PS) EX/M
SHALAMAR, Over And Over (Solar E 9792, PS) EX/EX
SHALAMAR, Disappearing Act (Solar E 9807, PS) EX/M

SHALAMAR, The Look (Solar 96-0239-1 + inner sleeve)EX/M
SHALAMAR, Friends (Germany Solar K 52345,

GF + inner sleeve) EX/M
SAM THE SHAM, Lil' Red Riding Hood (MGM 1315) VG
SAM THE SHAM, Wooly Bully (МОМ 2006 048, RI) EX
SAM THE SHAM, The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin

(US MGM K13581) EX
SAM THE SHAM, How Do You Catch A Girl?

(US MGM K13649, PS) EX/M
SAM THE SHAM, Oh That's Bad, No That's Good

(US MGM K13713) M
SAM THE SHAM, Black Sheep (US MGM K 13747) EX
SAM THE SHAM, Wooly Bully (France MGM 63623) EX/VG
SHAMEN, Christopher Mayhew Says (Soma 3, PS) EX/EX

SHAMEN, Hyperreal-Orbitedit (One Little Indian 48 TP 7, PS)EX/M

SHAMEN, 5.0.5 (One Little Indian 108 TP 12,

PS, Clear Vinyl) EX/M
SHAMPOO, Harlem Hustle (Ensign ENY 18) M
SHAMPOO, Trouble (Food 51, PS, Pink Vinyl) EX/EX
ЭНАМРОО, Delicious (Food PD 58, PS, Picture Disc) EX/M
SHAM 69, If The Kids Are United (Polydor 2059 050, PS)VG/M
SHAM 69, Borstal Breakout (Polydor 2058 966, PS) EX/VG
SHAM 69, Hurry Up Harry (Polydor POSP 7, PS) EX/M

SHAM 69, Questions And Answers (Polydor POSP 27, PS)EX/EX

SHAM 69, Tell The Children (Polydor POSP 136, PS) EX/M
SHAM 69, That's Life (Polydor POLD 5101, GF) EX/EX
SHA NA NA, Sh-Boom (Kama Sutra KSS 701) EX
SHA NA NA, Rock 'n' Roll Is Here To Stay

(Kama Sutra 2319 025) EX/M

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SHA МА NA, Golden Age Of Rock ‘n’ Roll (US K.Sutra 207 3)EX/EX 12.00
SHA NA NA, Sha Na Na Now! (US Kama Sutra KSBS 2605)EX/M 10.00

JIMMY SHAND, Jimmy Shand Polka (Parlophone R 4564) EX
JIMMY SHAND, Lily Of Laguna (Parlophone R 4853) EX
JIMMY SHAND, Moonstruck (Parlophone R 4897) EX

10"L JIMMY SHAND, Scottish Country Dances

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10"LP JIMMY SHAND, Jimmy Shand's Party
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JIMMY SHAND, The Old Brig “О” Dee (Waverley SZLP 2096)EX/EX

JIMMY SHAND, Fifty Years On (Ross WGR 062) EX/M
SHANDILEER, Many Lights One Glow

(Trinidad Sorrel SR 001) EX/M
VALERIE SHANE, When The Boys Talk About The Girls

(Philips PB 833) VG
VALERIE SHANE, Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland

(Philips PB 879) EX
SHANGAANS, Jungle Drums (Studio 2 TWO 109) EX/EX

SHANGRI-LAS, Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)

(Red Bird RB 10 008) EX
SHANGRI-LAS, Leader Of The Pack (Red Bird RB 10 014) VG
SHANGRI-LAS, | Can Never Go Home Anymore
(Red Bird RB 10 043) VG
SHANGRI-LAS, Long Live Our Love (Red Bird RB 10 048) Ex
SHANGRI-LAS, Shangri-Las (Charley CEP 109) EX/EX
SHANGRI-LAS, Golden Hits (Philips 6336 215) EX/EX
SHANGRI-LAS, Teen Anguish, Vol. 2 (Charly CRM 2005) ЕХ/М
BUD SHANK, Compositions Of Shorty Rogers
(Vogue Tri EPV 1135) EX/EX
BUD SHANK, Brasamba! (Fontana 688 131 ZL) EX/EX
RAVI SHANKAR, Song From The Hills (Fontana TF 712, wol)EX
SHANNONS, Little White Lies (US Liberty 56100) M
SHARE MY LETTUCE (VA), K. Williams etc.

(Pye Nixa NPL 18011) EX/EX
FEARGAL SHARKEY, A Good Heart (Virgin VS 808, PS) EX/EX
FEARGAL SHARKEY, You Little Thief (Virgin VS 840, PS) EX/M
FEARGAL SHARKEY, Feargal Sharkey

(Virgin V 2360 + inner slv) EX/EX
10" LP SHARKEY & KINGS OF DIXIELAND, Bourbon Street
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10" LP SHARKEY'S SOUTHERN COMFORT, Kings Of Dixieland

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AL SHARP, One Third Love, Two Thirds Pain (GTO GT 108) EX

BRIAN SHARP, Delilah (Grosvenor GRS 104, PS) EX/M
BRIAN SHARP, Eminent Sounds (BASF 17 25132-2,
Autographed) EX/M

Please send your wants lists/8s, 45s, EPs, LPs1950-2000.

Or if you prefer: duanehobden936@hotmail.com Stock in excess of 125,000.

455 - US ORIGINALS

Write to: PETER LERNER, 4 DAWS HILL LANE, HIGH WYCOMBE,

HP11 1PW.

Email: peterjlerner@gmail.com Postage extra.

JACKIE DeSHANNON, So Warm (Edison International 416) EX
PAM TILLIS, Every Home Should Have One (Elektra 47171, Promo)VG
THE DE VELLES, Let's Do The Hunch (Emanuel 107) VG
LITTLE АМТНОМҮ/ IMPERIALS, Limbo Part 1 (End 709) G

KIM WESTON, Goodness Gracious (Enterprise 9101, Promo) EX
BILLY LEE RILEY, | Got A Thing About You Baby (Entrance 7508) ЕХ
ROY HAMILTON, You're Gonna Need Magic

(Epic 9443, PS, Promo) VG/EX
BOBBY SOLO, Una Lacrima Sul Viso (Epic 9683) EX
THE SHERRY SISTERS, Sailor Boy (Epic 5-9693, Promo) EX

THE THIRD RAIL, Ворра Do Down Down (Epic 5-10240, wol) ЕХ

HOLE IN THE WALL, Bring It On Home To Me (Epic 10273, Promo)EX

THE SWAMPSEEDS, Can I Carry Your Balloon (Epic 10281) EX
VIVIAN REED, Lean On Me (Epic 5-10683, Promo, sol, wol) EX
KENNY O'DELL, Jubal (Epic 5-10730, Promo) EX
RONNIE DEAUVILLE, It Wasn't Much Of A Town (Era 1956) G
DONNIE BROOKS, Blue Soldier (Era 3194, Promo, wol) EX
BENNY GORDON / SOUL BROTHERS, Last Train To South Carolina
(Estill 17) EX
GLORIA LYNNE, Ill Buy You A Star (Everest 2023, sol) EX
THE BAYSIDERS, Over The Rainbow (Everest 19366) VG
BONNIE & LEE, | Need Ya (Fairmount 1024, Promo) EX
SPENCER WIGGINS, Love Machine (Fame 1463) EX
МОМ! MORRISON, | Feel Sorry For Me (Fantasy 607, Promo) EX
THE CASTALEERS, You're My Dream (Felsted 8585, sol) G
THE FASHIONS, Surfin' Back To School (Felsted 8689, Promo) EX
GARY PAXTON, Kansas City (Felsted 8691, Promo, wol) VG
BILL RICE, Let The Four Winds Blow (Fernwood 127) G

RONNIE MILSAP, Your Tears Leave Me Cold (Festival 5002) EX
DON GARDNER/ DEE DEE FORD, Don't You Worry (Fire 513) EX
BOBBY MARCHAN, There's Something On Your Mind, Part 1.

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THE SIX TEENS, Arrow Of Love (Flip 322)

THE CASINOS, It's All Over (Fraternity 985)

TWO OF CLUBS, River Deep — Mountain High (Fraternity 994)
NINA WILLIAMS, Dreaming Of You (Frolic 502)

DONALD RAY & COQUEESE, I'm In Love Again (Galaxy 001)
PAM DICKINSON, Funny Age (Gambit 1109)

WANDA BROWN, Suspicious Minds (Gateway 1010)

LINDA MANNING, Turning Back The Pages (Gaylord 6429, Promo)EX

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FOREMOST AUTHORITY, Childhood Friends (GNP Crescendo 403,

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ROCKFIELD CHORALE, Jingle Jangle (GNP Crescendo 810)
GENE TERRY / DOWNBEATS, No Mail Today (Goldband 1081)
AMORY PHELPS, Only Once In While (Goldband 1122)
LEON ASHLEY, You Win Again (Goldband 6-1124)
RONNIE GINTZ, Campus Queen (Goldband 6-1137)

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ALPHABET "C" 45s & A FEW LPs

Write or telephone: TERRY ROUND, 31 SEVERN WAY, BEWDLEY,
WORCS., DY12 2JG. Tel: 01299 211384. P&P: 45s £1.50 each.

Reductions for bulk. LPs £4.00 for 1st album, £2.00 each
thereafter. HUGE STOCK. WANTS LISTS WELCOMED.

ALPHABET "C"

45 MARTI CAINE, I'll Never See You Again (PS, BBC RESL 90) M

45 MARTI CAINE, Can | Speak To The World Please?
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45 AL CAIOLA, The Magnificent Seven (United Artists POP 889)EX

45 BOBBY CALDWELL, Down For The Third Time
(TK Records TKR 7515)
45 CALENDER, Hypertension (All Platinum 6146.308)

45 EDDIE CALVERT, Mandy (The Pansy) (Columbia DB 3956,

Purple Label)
45 EDDIE CALVERT, Free & Easy (Columbia DB 4059)
45 EDDIE CALVERT, Little Pixie (Columbia DB 4139)
45 EDDIE CALVERT, Americano (Columbia DB 4187)
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45 EDDIE CALVERT, Erica (Columbia DB 4982)

45 EDDIE CALVERT, Letkiss Jenka (Columbia DB 7796)

45 CAMEL, Remote Romance (Decca FR 13879)

45 CAMEO, Coming Home Soon (Midas CAMEO 1)

45 ANDY CAMERON, Ally’s Tartan Army (KLUB ОЗ)

45 TONY CAMILLO’S BAZUKA, Dynamite (A&M AMS 7168)
45 CAMOUFLAGE, Bee Sting (State STAT 58)

45 AMBROSE CAMPBELL & THE ALL STARS,

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45 CHRISTINE CAMPBELL, Wherever | Go (Parlophone R 4881)M

45 CHRISTINE CAMPBELL, My Love (Parlophone R 5014)
45 CHRISTINE CAMPBELL, You (Parlophone В 5127)
45 ЕТНМА CAMPBELL, The Old Rugged Cross

(Phillips 6006.475)

45 GLEN CAMPBELL, It’s Only Make Believe (Capitol CL 15663)EX

45 GLEN CAMPBELL, Honey Come Back (Capitol CL 15638)
45 GLEN CAMPBELL, Country Girl (Capitol CL 15708)

45 GLEN CAMPBELL, Rhinestone Cowboy (Capitol CL 15824)

45 JEAN CAMPBELL, My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
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45 JEAN CAMPBELL, You'll Always Answer To Me
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45 JEAN CAMPBELL, Reach For The Stars (Embassy WB 461) ЕХ

45 PAT CAMPBELL, The Deal (Major Minor MM648)
45 PAT CAMPBELL, Mother Went A Walkin’
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45 CAN, | Want More (Virgin VS 153)
45 CANDLEWICK GREEN, Who Do You Think You Are?
(Decca FR 13480)
45 PENNY CANDY, Come On Over (Top Rank JAR 328)
45 RAY CANE, The Losing Game (NEMS NES 103)
45 CANNED HEAT, On The Road Again (Liberty LBF 15090)
45 CANNED HEAT, Let's Work Together (Liberty LBF 15302)
45 CANNED HEAT, Poor Moon (Liberty LBF 15255)
45 FREDDIE CANNON, Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
(T Rank JAR 247)
45 FREDDIE CANNON, Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
(Top Rank JAR 334)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Eve (Island WIP 6127)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Tricky Dicky Rides Again (Island WIP 6165)
45 JIM CAPALDI, It’s All Up To You (Island WIP 6198)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Love Hurts (Island WIP 6246)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Goodbye My Love (Island WIP 6383)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Child In The Storm (PS, Carrere CAR 175)
45 JIM CAPALDI, Old Photographs (Carrere CAR 189)
АБ CAPTAIN SENSIBLE, Happy Jack (PS, A&M САР 1, Demo)
45 CAPTAIN SENSIBLE, Wot (A&M CAP 2)
45 CAPTAIN SENSIBLE, Glad It's All Over (PS, A&M CAP 6)
45 CAPTAIN & TENNILLE, Love Will Keep Us Together
(A&M AMS 7165)
45 CAPTAIN & TENNILLE, You Need A Woman Tonight
(A&M AMS 7407, Demo)
45 CAPTAIN & TENNILLE, Do That To Me One More Time
(Casablanca CAN 175)
45 CAPTAIN VIDEO, She's Not Too Young To Nasty
(Harvest HAR 5116)
45 CAPTAIN VIDEO, Sweetheart (Harvest HAR 5127)
45 IRENE CARA, Flashdance... What A Feeling
(PS, Casablanca CAN 1016)
45 IRENE CARA, Fame (RSO RSO 90)
45 CARAVELLES, You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry
(Decca F11697)
45 CARAVELLES, You Are Here (Fontana TF 466)
45 ROBERTO CARDINALI, | Would Love You Still
(HMV POP 662, Demo)
45 MARIAH CAREY, All | Want For Christmas Is You
(Columbia 661070, Rare Juke Box issue)

45 MARIAH CAREY, Love Takes Time (PS, Columbia 656364)

45 MARIAH CAREY, There's Got To Be A Way

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45 MARIAH CAREY, Can't Let Go (PS, Columbia 657662)
45 MARIAH CAREY, l'Il Be There (PS, Columbia 658137)
45 HENRY CARGILL, Skip A Rope (Monument MON 1015)
45 LES CARLE, From A Jack To A King (Embassy WB 557)
45 BELINDA CARLISLE, Heaven Is A Place On Earth

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45 BELINDA CARLISLE, Circle In The Storm (PS, Virgin VS 1074)ЕХ

45 BELINDA CARLISLE, Live Your Life Be Free
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BELINDA CARLISLE, Half The World (PS, Virgin VS 1388) ЕХ 4.00 45 TREVOR CHANCE, So Close (RCA GL 102, Demo) M 5.00 45 CHILD, Only You (PS, Ariola AHA 536) EX 4.00
BELINDA CARLISLE, Big Scary Animals (PS, Virgin VS 1472)EX 5.00 45 CHANGE, Searching (WEA K79156) M 5,00 45 CHILD, The Shape l'm In (PS, Ariola АНА 553) M 5.00
CARL CARLTON, She's A Bad Mama Jama 45 BRUCE CHANNEL, Keep On (Bell BLL 1010) M 5.00 45 CHILD, Interview Disc (Flexi, SFI 358, 33.3rpm) EX 5.00
(20th Century TC 2488) M 6.00 45 CHANSON, Don’t Hold Back (Ariola ARO 140) M 5.00 45 CHILD'S PLAY, Open Sesame (Magnet MAG 93) M 5.00
ERIC CARMEN, All By Myself (Arista 42) EX 4.00 45 CHANTAYS, Pipeline (London HLD 9696) EX 5.00 45 TSAI CHIN, The Ding Dong Song (Decca F11192) EX 5.00
KIM CARNES, More Love (EMI America EA 113, Demo) EX 5.00 45 HARRY CHAPIN, Could You Put Your Light On Please 45 TSAI CHIN, Tokyo Melody (Decca F12039) EX 4,00
КІМ CARNES, Bette Davis Eyes (PS, EMI America EA 121) М 5.00 (Elektra K12 EX 5.00 45 TSAI CHIN, School In Cheltenham (Decca F11737 EX 5.00
CARNIVAL, Son Of A Preacher Man (Liberty LBF 15252) EX 5.00 45 HARRY CHAPIN, Wold (Elektra K12 EX 4.00 45 CHINA CRISIS, Kings In A Catholic Style (Fold-out GF PS, Virgin V8765)
CARPENTERS, Close To You (A&M 800, Mustard) EX 5.00 45 HARRY CHAPIN, Dance Band On The Titanic (Elektra K12 EX 5.00 EX 5.00
CARPENTERS, Merry Christmas Darling 45 HARRY CHAPIN, Remember When The Music 45 CHINESE WASPS, Coming Up For Air (Carrere CAR 237) M 5.00
(PS, A&M AME 601, Mustard) EX 6.00 (Epic EPC 1163) M 4.00 45 JONNY CHINGAS, Phone Home (CBS 3121) М 5.00
CARPENTERS, Superstar (A&M AMS 864, Mustard EX 4.00 45 HARRY CHAPIN, "Sequel" (PS, Boardwalk FWS 1) EX 4.00 45 CHIPMUNKS, Almost Good (London HLU 8762) EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, Hurting Each Other (A&M AMS 885, Mustard EX 6.00 45 HARRY CHAPIN, At Last | Have A Hero - Appreciation Soc. 45 CHIPS, Love Matters (Decca FR 13574) EX 5.00
CARPENTERS, | Won't Last А Day Without You (PS, Peru PE 0001) M 6.00 45 CHIPS, David's Song (PS, Tube TUBE 4) M 5.00
(A&M AMS7023, Mustard) EX 4.00 45 CHARLES CHAPLIN, The Spring Song 45 CHIPS, Day After Day (CBS 2366, Demo) M 4.00
CARPENTERS, It's Going To Take Some Time (HMV POP 37, US 1-sided Demo) M 8.00 45 CHORDS (UK), Now It’s Gone (PS, Polydor 2059.141) EX 5.00
(A&M AMS 7005, Mustard) EX 6.00 45 CHAPLIN BAND, Madman's Discotheque (Sonnet SON 2176)EX 5.00 45 CHOCOLATE MILK, Let's Go All The Way (RCA 200) М 5.00
CARPENTERS, Yesterday, Once Моге 45 ROGER CHAPMAN, Midnite Child — Acrobat (Arista 244) EX 4.00 45 CHRISTIE, Yellow River (CBS 4911) EX 4,00
(A&M AMS 7073, Mustard) M 4,00 45 CHAQUITO, Hawaii 5-O (Phillips 6006.225) M 5.00 45 CHRISTIE, San Bernardino (CBS 5169) EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, Top Of The World (A&M AMS 7086, Mustard)M 4.00 45 CHARGE, Fashion (Kamera ERA 007, Red vinyl) M 5.00 45 DAVID CHRISTIE, Saddle Up (KR Records KR9) EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, Jambalaya (A&M AMS 7098, Mustard) M 4.00 45 CHARLES AND EDDIE, Would | Lie To You 45 JOHN CHRISTIE, Runaway (Polydor 2058.657) EX 5.00
CARPENTERS, Please Mr. Postman (A&M AMS 7141, Silver)M 4.00 (PS, Capitol CL 673) EX 5.00 45 LOU CHRISTIE, Red Sails In The Sunset (Columbia DB 4983)EX 8.00
CARPENTERS, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 45 CHILI CHARLES, High School (Virgin VS 108) EX 4.00 45 LOU CHRISTIE, Two Faces Have | (Columbia DB 7031) EX 8.00
(A&M AMS 7144, Silver) EX 4.00 45 ТІМА CHARLES, I Love To Love (CBS 3937) EX 4.00 45 LOU CHRISTIE, l'm Gonna Make You Mine (Buddah 20105 7)EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, Only Yesterday (A&M AMS 7159, Silver) M 4.00 45 DICK CHARLESWORTH, In The Doghouse (HMV POP 930) M 5.00 45 LOU CHRISTIE, Riding In The Van (Epic EPC 4471, Demo) ЕХ 6.00
CARPENTERS, Solitaire (A&M AMS 7187, Silver) M 4.00 45 CHARLIE, Watching T.V. (Polydor 2059.069) EX 4.00 45 LOU CHRISTIE, Rhapsody In The Rain (MGM K13473,
CARPENTERS, There’s A Kind Of Hush 45 CHAS & DAVE, Old Time Song (Retreat RTS 269, Rare) М 6.00 US issue) EX 4.00
(A&M AMS 7219, Silver) EX 4.00 45 CHAS & DAVE, The Sideboard Song 45 TONY CHRISTIE, | Did What | Did For Mama (MCA 5064) М 4.00
CARPENTERS, | Need To Be In Love (A&M AMS 7238, Silver)M 4.00 (Rockney EMI 2986, Demo) M 6.00 45 TONY CHRISTIE, (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
CARPENTERS, Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft 45 CHAS & DAVE, Rabbit (PS, Rockney 9A) M 4.00 (MCA MKS 5073) M 4.00
(A&M AMS 7318, Silver) M 4.00 45 CHAS & DAVE, In Sickness And In Health 45 TONY CHRISTIE, Las Vegas (МСА МК 5058) EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, Sweet Sweet Smile (A&M 7327) EX 4.00 (PS, BBC Theme RESL 176) M 5.00 45 TONY CHRISTIE, My Love Song (PS, MCA MKS 5095) EX 4.00
CARPENTERS, For All We Know (A&M 1243, US Promo) M 7.00 45 CHASE, Handbags Апа Gladrags (Epic 5.10775, US issue) ЕХ 4.00 45 TONY CHRISTIE, Avenues & Alleyways (MCA MKS 5101) EX 4.00
LINDA CARR, Highwire (Chelsea 2005.025) EX 4.00 45 CHASER, Who's Got The Woman (Harvest 5141, Demo) M 5.00 45 KEITH CHRISTMAS, Brighter Day (Manticore K13507) EX 4.00
PEARL CARR & TEDDY JOHNSON, To Know That You Love Me 45 CHASER, Walkin’ On A Tightrope (Harvest 5153, Demo) ЕХ 5.00 45 CHUCK & GIDEON, The Tender Touch (R5011) VG 4.00
(Columbia DB 4916, Demo) M 6.00 45 CHASER, Head Over Heels (United Artists UP 36219, Demo)EX 4.00 45 CHUCKS, Loo-Be-Loo (Decca F11569) EX 4.00
VIKKI CARR, It Must Be Him (Liberty LIB 55917) M 4.00 45 СНЕ & RAY, Boogie Woogie Boys (Columbia DB 9052, Demo)EX 5.00 45 CHUCKS, The Hitch-Hiker (Decca F11777) EX 5.00
VIKA] CARR, With Pen In Hand (Liberty LBF 15166) M 5.00 45 CHEAP TRICK, Ain't That A Shame (Epic EPC 7839) M 4.00 45 HUANG CHUNG, Hold Back The Tears (PS, Arista 420) EX 5.00
RAFFAELA CARRA, Do It, Do It Again (Epic EPC 6094) EX 4.00 45 CHEAP TRICK, If You Want My Love (PS, Epic EPC 2406) M 4.00 45 WANG CHUNG, Fire In The Twilight (A&M АМ 249) EX 4.00
RONNIE CARROLL, Footsteps (Phillips PB 1004) EX 5.00 45 CHEATERS, Spirit In The Sky (PS, Revo ION 1028, Blue vinyl)M 5.00 45 CIMARONS, With A Little Luck (PS, I.M.P. IMPS 50) M 5.00
RONNIE CARROLL, Roses Are Red (Rare PS, 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, The Twist (Columbia DB 4503) EX 5.00 45 GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI, Non Ho L'eta Per Amarti
Phillips 326532 BF) EX 5.00 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, Let's Twist Again (Columbia DB 4691) М 5.00 (Decca F21882) EX 4.00
RONNIE CARROLL, If Only Tomorrow 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, Teach Me To Twist (Columbia DB 4802)EX 6.00 45 CITY BOY, "5.7.0.5." (Vertigo 6059.207) M 4.00
(Rare PS, Phillips 326550 BF) EX 5.00 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, Slow Twistin’ (Columbia DB 4808) EX 5.00 45 CITY BOY, What A Night (Vertigo 6059.211, Blue vinyl) E 4.00
RONNIE CARROLL, Say Wonderful Things 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, Dancin’ Party (Columbia DB 4876) ЕХ 5.00 45 CITY BOY, The Day The Earth Caught Fire
(Phillips 326574 BF) EX 4.00 45 CHUBBY CHECKER, The Twist (PS, Vertigo 6059.238) EX 4.00
RONNIE CARROLL, Ring-A-Ding Girl (Phillips 326511 BF) EX 4.00 (Cameo Parkway 811, US issue) EX 5.00 45 CISCO KID, The Girl From Roxville (Electric CES 006) EX 5.00
RONNIE CARROLL, Dear Heart (Phillips 326691 BF) EX 4.00 45 CHEETAHS, Soldier Boy (Phillips BF 1384) G 4.00 45 CLANNAD, Theme From Harry's Game (PS, RCA 292) EX 5.00
JASPER CARROTT, Funky Moped (DJM DJS 10388) M 4.00 45 CHELSEA F.C., Back On The Ball 45 CLANNAD, Newgrange (PS, RCA 340) EX 4.00
JASPER CARROTT, Bickenhill Rovers (DJM DJS 649) M 5.00 (Poster PS, 1970 Squad, WEA YZ 223) M 6.00 45 CLANNAD, Robin (The Hooded Man) (PS, RCA HOOD 1) M 4.00
CARS, My Best Friend's Girl (Elektra K12301) M 5.00 45 CHELSEA F.C., Blue Is The Colour (Penny Farthing PEN 782)M 5.00 45 CLANNAD, Closer To Your Heart (PS, RCA PB 40357) M 4.00
CARS, Just What | Needed (Elektra K12312) EX 4.00 45 CHEQUERS, Rock On Brothers (Creole CR 111) M 4.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, I Shot The Sheriff (RSO 2090.132) EX 4.00
CARS, Double Life (Elektra К12385) EX 4.00 45 CHER, All | Really Want To Do (Liberty LIB 66114) EX 4.00 45 ЕНІС CLAPTON, Swing Low Sweet Chariot (RSO 2090.158) М 4.00
CARS, Think It Over (PS, Elektra 13187) EX 4.00 45 CHER, Where Do You Want To Go (Liberty LIB 66136) EX 4.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Knockin’ On Heaven's Door (RSO 2090.166)EX 4.00
CARS, Drive (Elektra E9706) M 4.00 45 CHER, Paralyze (CBS 2609, Demo) M 6.00 45 ЕНІС CLAPTON, Carnival (RSO 2090.222) EX 4.00
CARS, You Might Think (PS, Elektra E9718) EX 4.00 45 CHER, We All Sleep Alone (PS, Geffen GEF 35) EX 5.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Lay Down Sally (RSO 2090.264) EX 4,00
MINDY CARSON, | Never Let You Cross My Mind 45 CHER, Just Like Jessie James (PS, Geffen GEF 69) M 4.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, | Can't Stand It (RSO 74) M 5.00
(Columbia 4.40057, US issue) EX 5.00 45 CHER, If | Could Turn Back Time (PS, Geffen GEF 59) M 4.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Wonderful Tonight (PS, Duck М/0069) M 5.00
RALPH CARTER, When You're Young And In Love 45 CHER, The Shoop Shoop Song (PS, Epic 656673) M 4.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, It's The Way That You Use It
(Mercury 6167.196) EX 4.00 45 CHERI, Murphy's Law (Polydor POSP 459) M 4.00 (PS, Duck W8397) EX 5.00
RALPH CARTER, Extra, Extra (Read All About It) 45 МЕМЕН CHERRY, Kisses On The Wind (PS, Circa YR 330 М 5.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Another Ticket (PS, RSO 75, Rare DJ copy) M 10.00
(Mercury 6167.286) EX 4.00 45 JIM CHESNUT, She's My Woman (PS, DJM DJS 10747) M 5.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, (I’ve Got A) Rock And Roll Heart
RON CARTER, Anything Goes (Kudu KUDU 927) M 4.00 45 JOHNNY CHESTER, As You Like It (Embassy WB 509) EX 4.00 (PS, Duck W9780) EX 5.00
CARVELLS, The L.A. Run (Creole CR 143) EX 5.00 45 MAURICE CHEVALIER, If You Knew Suzie (MGM 1092, Demo)M 5.00 45 ЕНІС CLAPTON, Behind The Mask (GF, PS,
CASCADES, Rhythm Of The Rain (Warners K16526) M 4.00 45 MAURICE CHEVALIER, Le Sous — Marin Vert Duck W8461, Double) EX 6.00
CASCADES, Say Girl (Warners WB 98) VG 4.00 (HMV POP 1562, Demo) М 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Glad All Over (Columbia DB 7154) EX 3.00
JOHNNY CASH, Forty Shades Of Green (Phillips PB 1148) EX 4.00 45 CHEVRONS, Lullabye (Top Rank JAR 308) VG 4.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Can't You See That She's Mine
JOHNNY CASH, A Boy Named Sue (CBS 4460) EX 4.00 45 CHIC, Dance Dance Dance (Atlantic K11038) M 4.00 (Columbia DB 7291) EX 3.00
JOHNNY CASH, Flesh And Blood (CBS 5364) EX 4.00 45 CHIC, Le Freak (Atlantic K11209) M 4.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Thinking Of You Baby (Columbia DB 7335)EX 4.00
JOHNNY CASH, A Thing Called Love (CBS 7797) M 4.00 45 CHIC, My Forbidden Lover (Atlantic K11385) M 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Any Way You Want It (Columbia DB 7377)M 6.00
JOHNNY CASH, One Piece At A Time (CBS 4287) EX 4.00 45 CHIC, Hangin' (PS, Atlantic A9898) EX 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Come Home (Columbia DB 7580) M 5.00
MAMA CASS, Dream A Little Dream Of Me (RCA 1726) M 5.00 45 CHICAGO, l'm A Мап (CBS 4715) EX 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Catch Us If You Can (Columbia DB 7625)M 5.00
DAVID CASSIDY, Could It Be Forever (Bell 1224) EX 4.00 45 CHICAGO, Make Me Smile (CBS 4919) EX 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Nineteen Days (Columbia DB 8028) M 7.00
DAVID CASSIDY, How Can I Be Sure (Bell 1258) EX 4.00 45 CHICAGO, 25 Or 6 To 4 (CBS 5076) EX 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, You Got What It Takes
DAVID CASSIDY, The Puppy Song / Daydreamer 45 CHICAGO, If You Leave Me Now (CBS 4603) M 4.00 (Columbia DB 8152) EX 4.00
(PS, Bell 1334) M 4.00 45 CHICAGO, Baby, Want A Big Surprise (CBS 5672) EX 4.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Everybody Knows (Columbia DB 8286) M 4.00
DAVID CASSIDY, | Am A Clown (Bell MABEL 4, 33.Згрт) М 4.00 45 CHICAGO, Take Me Back To Chicago (PS, CBS 5924) M 5.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, The Red Balloon (Columbia DB 8465) ЕХ 5.00
DAVID CASSIDY, If | Didn't Care (Bell BELL 1350) M 4.00 45 CHICORY ТІР, Son Of My Father (CBS 7737) M 4.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Everybody Get Together
DAVID CASSIDY, Please Please Me (Bell BELL 1371) M 4.00 45 CHICORY TIP, What's Your Name (CBS 8021) EX 4.00 (Columbia DB 8660) EX 4.00
DAVID CASSIDY, | Write The Songs (RCA 2571) M 4.00 45 CHICORY TIP, Good Grief Christina (CBS 1258) EX 4.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Play Good Old Rock And Roll
DAVID CASSIDY, Darlin’ (RCA 2622) M 4.00 45 CHICORY ТІР, Cigarettes, Women & Wine (CBS 1668) EX 5.00 (PS, Col. DB 8638) EX 5.00
DAVID CASSIDY, The Last Kiss (PS, Arista ARIST 589) M 4.00 45 STEVE & LES CHILCOTT, Planxty Irwin (PS, GFR 002) М 6.00 45 DEE CLARK, Ride A Wild Horse (Chelsea 2005.037) EX 4.00
DAVID CASSIDY, Someone (PS, Arista ARIST 626) EX 4.00 45 CHILD, It's Only Make Believe (PS, Ariola AHA 522) EX 4.00 45 JEFF B. CLARK, Roll Your Own (Epic EPC 4684, Demo) EX 4.00
ROY CASTLE, Rosie Lee (Phillips PB 1032) EX 4.00
ROY CASTLE, A Matter Of Who (Phillips PB 1162) EX 4.00 wn
ROY CASTLE, Shenandoah (Phillips PB 1217) | ЕХ 4.00 М z DURAN МӘЛЕМЕТ — Ne:
JIMMY CASTOR BUNCH, E-Man Boogie (Atlantic K10587) EX 4.00 pin ел CUN THp up уду
CASUALS, Jesamine (Decca Ғ22784) EX 5.00 -A F -Qy ^ »p B B X^
CASUALS, My Name Is Love (Decca F23027) EX 4.00 M | o 4 | N
CATCH 22, Marathon Man (Applause CLAP 6) M 5.00 E т
CATS, Let's Dance (PS, Imperial 24614, Dutch issue) EX 5.00
CAT'S EYES, Cirrus (MCA MK 5043) EX 4.00
CAT'S UK, Luton Airport (WEA K18075) M 4.00
NADIA CATTOUSE, Long Time Boy (Parlophone R4725) VG 5.00
C.C.S., Boom Boom / Whole Lotta Love (RAK 104) EX 5.00
C.C.S., Walking (RAK 109) EX 4.00
C.C.S., Tap Turns On The Water (RAK 119) EX 4.00
C.C.S., Sixteen Tons (RAK 141) EX 4.00
C.C.S., Brother (RAK RR7, Demo) EX 5.00
CELEBRATION, Almost Summer (MCA 365) M 5.00
CELINES, Half A Love (Gull GULS 22) М 4.00
ADRIANO CELENTANO, The Language Of Love
(Epic EPC 4890) EX 4.00 ДЕ
CENTRE POINT, Never Never (Руе 7N 45465) M 6.00 EXCLUSIVE! JUNIOR WELLS
CERRONE, Love In “С” Minor (Atlantic K10895) EX 5.00 “IT WAS TRULY пц а BEATLES
CERRONE, Сеттопе 5 Paradise (Atlantic K10961) EX 4.00 RUN.
CERRONE, Supernature (Atlantic 11089) EX 4.00 veu d ILES
CERRONE, Je Suis Music (CBS 6918, Demo) EX 5.00
BRIAN CHALKER'S NEW FRONTIER, =” =
Help Ме Make It Through The Night (Chapter % SCH 179) M 6.00 MICHAEL STIPE & MIKE MILLS ON NT ІНІ he 0 nil ne at
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, Love Me Tender (MGM 1173) М 5,00
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, Theme From Dr. Kildare INCLUDES
(MGM 1160) EX 5.00 DISCO
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo (MGM 1189) ЕХ 400 BOOKER T 1 JON! MITCHELL I RITCHIE BLAC Or call 0208 0152 81 93
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, | Will Love You (MGM 1205) EX 4.00 RADIOHEAD | THE BEATLES ! DAMON ALBARN | E
CHAMPAGNE, I'm Gonna Miss You (Thunderbird THE 113) EX 4.00 and quote cod е RC | 7 2]
CHAMPAGNE, How 'Bout Us (CBS 1046) M 4.00 |
JACQUI CHAN, But No One Knows (Pye 7N 15273) EX 5.00

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JOHNNY CLARK, He's A Wally (President РТ 509) M
PETULA CLARK, Devotion (Pye 7N 15152, no middle) M
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PETULA CLARK, | Will Follow Him (Pye 7N 15495) EX
PETULA CLARK, Let Me Tell You (Pye 7N 15551) EX
PETULA CLARK, Baby It’s Me (Pye 7N 15573) VG
PETULA CLARK, Downtown (Pye 7N 15/22) EX
PETULA CLARK, You're The One (Pye 7N 15991) EX
PETULA CLARK, My Love (Pye 7N 17038) M
PETULA CLARK, Who Ат I (Pye TN 17187) EX
PETULA CLARK, This Is My Song (Pye 7N 17258) M
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PETULA CLARK, Don't Give Up (Pye 7N 17580) EX
PETULA CLARK, Happy Heart (Pye 7N 17733) EX

PETULA CLARK, The Song Of My Life (Pye 7N 45026) EX

PETULA CLARK, І Don't Know How To Love Him

(Pye 7N 45112) EX

PETULA CLARK, What I Did For Love (Pye 7N 45506) M

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ALLAN CLARKE, Living In Love (EMI 2491, Demo) EX
STANLEY CLARKE, Straight To Тһе Тор

(Epic EPC 2697, Demo) M
STANLEY CLARKE, | Just Want To Love You

(Epic EPC 1311, Demo) M
STANLEY CLARKE, Heroes (with Geo Duke)

(Epic EPC 3860) EX
CLASH, Complete Control (CBS 5664, Co. Sleeve) EX
CLASH, Bank Robber (CBS 8323, Co. Sleeve) EX
CLASH, Know Your Rights (CBS 2309, Co. Sleeve) M
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CLASH, Should | Stay Or Should | Go

(PS, Columbia 656667) EX
CLASSMATES, In Morocco (Decca Ғ11806) EX
RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, Ballade Pour Adeline

(PS, A/Z 45.1612) EX
JACK CLEMENT, When | Dream (Elektra K12340) VG
BUZZ CLIFFORD, Baby Sittin’ Boogie (Fontana H297) EA
LINDA CLIFFORD, If My Friends Could See Me Now

(Curtom K17163) EX
MATAYA CLIFFORD, Oh My Love (Stay With Me) (RCA 2373) M

CLIMAX BLUES BAND, Couldn't Get It Right (BTM SBT 105) M
CLIMAX BLUES BAND, I Love You (Warners K17770) M
CLIMAX BLUES BAND, Dance The Night Away

(PS, Warners K17754) M
CLINCH, Sweet Hearts (Jigsaw ЛС 4) M
PATSY CLINE, І Fall To Pieces (Brunswick 45.05855) VG
PATSY CLINE, Crazy (Decca 31317, US issue) G
TAMMY CLINE, Love Is A Puzzle (CBS 2076, Demo) EX
ROSEMARY CLOONEY, | Will Follow You (Reprise R20145,
one-sided Demo) M
ROSEMARY CLOONEY, | Wish I Were In Love Again

(Coral 72388, one-sided Demo) EX
CLOUT, Substitute (Carrere EMI 2788) EX
CLOUT, Let It Grow (Carrere EMI 2884) EX
CLOUT, Since You've Been Gone (PS, Carrere CAR 101) M
CLOVER, Streets Of London (Vertigo 6059.175) EX
CLUB QUARTET, Bluer Than Blue (Top Rank JAR 362) EX

COAST TO COAST, (Do) The Hucklebuck (Polydor POSP 214)M
COAST TO COAST, Let's Jump The Broomstick

(PS, Polydor POSP 249) M
COASTERS, Charlie Brown (Atlantic 05 13007, US issue) EX
COASTERS, Poison Ivy (Atlantic 05 13005, US issue) EX
EDDIE COCHRAN, Somethin' Else (London HLU 8944,

Round centre) VG
EDDIE COCHRAN, Three Steps To Heaven

(London HLU 9115) EX
EDDIE COCHRAN, Weekend (London HLU 9362) EX
EDDIE COCHRAN, My Way (Liberty LIB 10088) VG
JOE COCKER, The Letter (Regal Zono. RZ 3027) M
COCKNEY REBEL, Judy Teen (EMI 2128) EX
COCKNEY REJECTS, Іт Forever Blowing Bubbles

(PS, EMI 24) EX
COCK ROBIN, When Your Heart 15 Weak (PS, CBS 6214) M
DAVID ALLAN COE, Longhaired Redneck (CBS 4194) EX
COFFEE, "Casanova" (De-Lite MER 38) X
DENNIS COFFEY, Scorpio (Sussex SUX 226, US issue) EX
ALMA COGAN, We Got Love (HMV POP 670) EX
ALMA COGAN, The Train Of Love (HMV POP 760) EX
ALMA COGAN, Goodbye Jimmy Joe (Columbia DB 4607) ЕХ
ALMA COGAN, Tell Him (Columbia DB 4965) M
IZHAR COHEN & THE ALPHA-BETA, A-Ba-Ni-Bi

(Polydor 2001.781) EX
LEONARD COHEN, First We Take Manhattan

(PS, CBS 651352) М
LEONARD COHEN, Ain't No Cure For Love

(PS, CBS 651599) EX
JAMES COIT, Black Power (Phoof Records R101, US issue) EX
COLDCUT, Stop This Crazy Thing (PS, Ahead CCUT 4) M
FREDDY COLE, I Loved You (Decca FR 13832, Demo) EX
NATALIE COLE, Joey (Capitol CL 15834) EX
NATALIE COLE, Party Lights EP (Capitol CLX 101, Demo) М
NATALIE COLE, La Costa (Capitol CL 15961, Demo) EX
NATALIE COLE, Stand By (PS, Capitol CL 16072) M
NAT KING COLE, "Unforgettable" EP

(PS, Capitol EAP 20053) EX
NAT KING COLE, Come Closer To Me (Capitol CL 14898) ЕХ
NAT KING COLE, Non Dimenticar (Capitol CL 14937) EX

NAT KING COLE, Time And The River (Capitol CL 15111) EX
NAT KING COLE, That's You (Capitol CL 15129,

no middle Demo) EX
NAT KING COLE, Steady (Capitol CL 15144) EX
NAT KING COLE, | Wish | Knew The Way To Your Heart

(Capitol CL 15163) EX

NAT KING COLE, The World In My Arms (Capitol CL 15178) EX

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NAT KING COLE, The Party's Over (Capitol CL 15204) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Take A Fool's Advice (Capitol CL 15212) M 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Cappuccina (Capitol CL 15224) M 4.00
NAT KING COLE, | Would Do Anything For You

(Capitol CL 15241) M 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Let There Be Love (Capitol CL 15257) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Ramblin' Rose (Capitol CL 15270) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer (Capitol CL
15303) EX 5.00
NAT KING COLE, Mr Wishing Well (Capitol CL 15316) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, But Beautiful (Capitol CL 15334) M 4.00
NAT KING COLE, My True Carrie, Love (Capitol CL 15340) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, І Don't Want To See Tomorrow

(Capitol CL 15365) EX 4.00
NAT KING COLE, Game Of Love (Capitol CL 15372) M 4.00
NAT KING COLE, When | Fall In Love (Capitol CL 15773) ЕХ 5.00
TONY COLE, Natural Dance (Pinnacle P84.46) EX 4.00
BRIAN COLL, Just Out Of Reach (Emerald MD 1071) M 5.00
EDWYN COLLINS, Don't Shilly Shally (PS, WEA ACID 4) M 5.00
JUDY COLLINS, Amazing Grace (Elektra 2101.020) EX 4.00
JUDY COLLINS, Someday Soon (Elektra 2101.005) EX 5.00
JUDY COLLINS, Send In The Clowns (Elektra K12177) M 4.00
JUDY COLLINS, Hard Times For Lovers (PS, Elektra K12343)M 5.00
PHIL COLLINS, In The Air Tonight

(GF, PS, Virgin VSK 102, Inner) EX 5.00
PHIL COLLINS, | Missed Again (PS, Virgin VS 402) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, You Can't Hurry Love (PS, Virgin VS 531) ЕХ 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away

(PS, Virgin VS 572) EX 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, One More Night (PS, Virgin VS 755) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Take Me Home (PS, Virgin VS 777) EX 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, A Groovy Kind Of Love (PS, Virgin VS 1117) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Two Hearts (PS, Virgin VS 1141) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Another Day In Paradise (PS, Virgin VS 1234)М 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, | Wish It Would Rain Down

(PS, Virgin VS 1240) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, That's Just The Way It Is (PS, Virgin VS 1277)EX 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Hang In Long Enough (PS, Virgin VS 1300) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, Everyday (PS, Virgin VS 1505) M 4.00
PHIL COLLINS, If Leaving Me Is Easy (PS, Virgin VS 423) EX 5.00
VINCE COLLINS, It's A Good Life (Marlin VSCSP 001) EX 4.00
COLORADO, California Dreamin' (Pinnacle PIN 67) M 4.00
COLOR МЕ BADD, All 4 Love (PS, Giant W0053) M 5.00
COLOR МЕ BADD, | Adore Mi Amor (PS, Giant WOO67) EX 4.00
COLOUR FIELD, Thinking Of You (PS, Chrysalis COLF 3) EX 4.00
CHI COLTRANE, Thunder And Lightning (CBS 9312) EX 5.00
STEVE COLYER, Hey, Mary (Polydor 2058.647) EX 5.00
COMMUNARDS, Never Can Say Goodbye

(PS, London LON 158) EX 4.00
COMMUNARDS, Don't Leave Me This Way

(PS, London LON 103) EX 4.00
COMMUNARDS, You Are My World (PS, London LON 123) M 4.00
PERRY COMO, Catch A Falling Star (RCA 1036, Tri) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, Kewpie Doll (RCA 1055, Tri) G 4.00
PERRY COMO, Moon Talk (RCA 1071, Tri) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, Mandolins In The Moonlight (RCA 1086, Tri) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, Kiss Me And Kiss Me And Kiss Me

(RCA 1111, Tri) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, I Know (RCA 1126, Tri) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, No Well On Earth (RCA 1156) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, Delaware (RCA 1170) EX 5.00
PERRY COMO, Home For The Holidays (RCA 1215) M 4.00
PERRY COMO, Caterina (RCA 1283) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, It's Impossible (RCA 2043, Orange Label) ЕХ 4.00
PERRY COMO, And | Love You So (RCA 2346, Orange Label)M 4,00
PERRY COMO, For Тһе Good Times (ВСА 2402,

Orange Label) M 4,00
PERRY COMO, Walk Right Back (RCA 2432, Orange Label) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, World Of Dreams (RCA 2541, Orange Label)EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, I Want To Give (RCA LPBO 7518) EX 4.00
PERRY COMO, You'll Never Walk Alone EP

(PS, RCA RCX 1018) EX 5.00
PERRY COMO, Christmas With Como EP

(PS, RCA RCX 164) VG 4.00
COMSAT ANGELS, Independence Day (Polydor 2059.257) EX 4.00
COMSAT ANGELS, Day One (PS, Jive JIVE 73) EX 4.00
CONGREGATION, Softly Whispering | Love You

(Columbia DB 8830) M 4.00
CONGREGATION, Jesahel (Columbia DB 8906) EX 6.00
CONNIE, Theme From Show (PS, Towerbell TVP 3) M 4.00
RAY CONNIFF, Somewhere My Love (Dr. Zhivago Theme)

(PS, CBS WB727) EX 5.00
BILLY CONNOLLY, D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (Polydor 2058.652) EX 4.00
BILLY CONNOLLY, No Chance (No Charge)

(Polydor 2058.748) M 4.00
MICK CONNOR, The Cotswolds (Logio GO 378) EX 4.00
TIM CONNOR, Without A Shoulder To Cry On

(HMV POP 1056, Demo) EX 6.00
JESS CONRAD, Mystery Girl (Decca F11315) VG 4.00
JESS CONRAD, Walk Away (Decca F11394) EX 5.00
JESS CONRAD, As You Like It (Decca F11620) EX 5.00
JESS CONRAD, Take Your Time (Columbia DB 4969) EX 5.00
CONTRASTS, What A Day (Monument MON 1018) VG 4.00
BILL CONTI, Theme From Dynasty (Arista 520) EX 4.00
RUSS CONWAY, Side Saddle (Columbia DB 4256, Demo) ЕХ 5.00
RUSS CONWAY, Roulette (Columbia DB 4298, Demo) EX 5.00
RUSS CONWAY, China Tea (Columbia DB 4337) EX 4.00
RUSS CONWAY, Snow Coach (Columbia DB 4368) EX 4.00
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RUSS CONWAY, Pepe (Columbia DB 4564) EX 4.00
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SAMONA COOKE, Dance To Keep From Crying

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COOKIES, Chains (Eric 152) EX 5.00
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RITA COOLIDGE, We're All Alive (A&M AMS 7295) M
RITA COOLIDGE, Words (A&M AMS 7330) EX
COOL BREEZE, Do It Some More (Bus Stop BUS 1023) EX
COOL CITY SISTERS, Citizen James (Bus Stop BUS 1015) EX

COOL NOTES, Spend The Night (Abstract AD 3) EX
ALICE COOPER, Slick Black Limousine

(Lyntone WB 2585, Flexi) EX
ALICE COOPER, School's Out (Warners K16188) EX
ALICE COOPER, Elected (Warners К16214) EX
ALICE COOPER, Hello Hurray (Warners К16248) EX
ALICE COOPER, No More Mr. Nice Guy (Warners K16262) EX
ALICE COOPER, | Am The Future (Warners К15004) M

HARRY H. CORBETT, Like The Big Guys Do (Pye 7N 15552)EX
FRANK CORDELL ORCHESTRA, My Sleepy Melody

(HMV POP 1261) EX
PHIL CORDELL, Hearts On Fire (PS, Virgin VS 246,

Red vinyl) M
LOUISE CORDET, I’m Just А Baby (Decca Ғ11476) EX
ГҮМ CORNELL, Never On Sunday (Decca Ғ11277) EX
LYN CORNELL, The Angel And The Stranger

(Decca F11301) EX
CARMELLA CORREN, Now And Always

(HMV POP 696, Demo) EX
DAVE "BABY" CORTEZ, The Happy Organ

(London HLU 8852, Tri) G
DON COSTA ORCHESTRA, That's The Way With Love

(U.A. POP 882) EX
ELVIS COSTELLO, Oliver's Army (PS, Radar ADA 31) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea

(PS, Radar ADA 3) EX
ELVIS COSTELLO, Radio Radio (PS, Radar ADA24) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, Watching The Detectives

(PS, Stiff BUY 20) EX

ELVIS COSTELLO, | Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

(PS, F/Beat XX 1) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, New Amsterdam (PS, F/Beat XX 5) EX
ELVIS COSTELLO, Clubland (PS, F/Beat XX 12) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, Sweet Dreams (PS, F/Beat XX 19) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, You Little Fool (PS, F/Beat XX 26) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, Man Out Of Time

(PS, F/Beat XX 28, DJ Promo) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, Everyday | Write The Book
(PS, F/Beat XX 32) EX

ELVIS COSTELLO, From Head To Toe (PS, F/Beat XX 30) M
ELVIS COSTELLO, Let Them All Talk (PS, F/Beat XX 33) ЕХ
ELVIS COSTELLO, Accidents Will Happen

(PS, Radar SAM 90) EX
GERRY COTT, Ballad Of The Lone Ranger

(PS, Epic EPC 3047) M
COTTON MILL BOYS, Joey Moroney (Pye 7N 17783) EX
BILLY COTTON, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

(Columbia DB 4430) EX
BILLY COTTON & KATHIE KAY, Half A Sixpence

(Columbia DB 7019, Demo) M
GENE COTTON, You've Got Me Runnin' (ABC 4154) M
JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND, Off The Wall

(Verve KF 5053) EX
MIKE COTTON JAZZMEN, Swing That Hammer

(Columbia DB 7029) EX
JOHN COUGAR, Jack And Diane (PS, Riva 37) M

COUNTRYMAN, Theme Music (Wally Badarou)

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DON COVAY, It's Better To Have (Mercury 6052.634) EX
COVENTRY CITY F.C., Go For It (Sky Blue Records SKB1) М
JULIE COVINGTON, Don't Cry For Me Argentina (MCA 260) M
JULIE COVINGTON, Only Women Bleed (Virgin VS 196) M
COWBOY CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL, It Is No Secret

(Brunswick 45.05598) EX
MICHAEL COX, Angela Jones (Triumph RGM 1011) VG
KEVIN COYNE, Rock 'n' Roll Hymn (Virgin VS 119) EX
KEVIN COYNE, Fever (Virgin VS 160) EX
CRACKERS, When Jo Jo Runs (York SYK 541) EX
BILLY ‘CRASH’ CRADDOCK, | Cheated On A
Good Woman's Love (Capitol CL 15971) EX
FLOYD CRAMER, Last Date (RCA 1211) EX
FLOYD CRAMER, On The Rebound (RCA 1231) EX
FLOYD CRAMER, San Antonio Rose (RCA 1241) EX
FLOYD CRAMER, Losers Weepers (RCA 1311) M
LES CRANE, Desiderata (Warners K16119) EX
JIMMY CRAWFORD, I Love How You Love Me
(Columbia DB 4717) EX
MICHAEL CRAWFORD, Music Of The Night
(PS, Phantom, Polydor POSP 803) EX
RANDY CRAWFORD, Rainy Night In Georgia
(PS, Warners К17840) M
RANDY CRAWFORD, One Day ТІ Fly Away
(Warners K17680) M
CRAZY HORSE, Dance Dance Dance (Reprise RS 23503) а
CRAZY HORSE, We Ride (Epic EPC 1121) EX
CRAZY OTTO, Near You (Polydor 66633) M
CREAM, Wrapping Paper (Reaction 591007) VG
CREAM, | Feel Free (Reaction 591011) VG
CREAM, Strange Brew (Reaction 591015) үс
CREAM, Anyone For Tennis (Polydor 56258) EX
СКЕАМ, Wrapping Paper (Polydor 2058.120) EX
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, Bad Moon Rising
(Liberty LBF 15230) EX
CREME & GODLEY, 5 O'Clock In The Morning
(Merc. GOD 001) EX
MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Something's Gonna Happen
(Albion ION 1029) EX
KID CREOLE, "Maladie D'amour" (PS, Island WIP 6619) M
KID CREOLE, Dear Addy (PS, Island WIP 6840) EX
CRESTS, Isn't It Amazing (Co-Ed Records CO 537, US issue)EX
CREW, Cecilia (Decca F13000) EX
BERNARD CRIBBINS, The Hole In The Ground
(Parlophone R4869) EX

BERNARD CRIBBINS, Right, Said Fred (Parlophone R4923) M
BERNARD CRIBBINS, Gossip Calypso

(Parlophone R4961, Demo) M
CRICKETS, That'll Ве The Day (Vogue Coral 450 72279, Tri Р
CRICKETS, Oh Boy (Coral 45Q 72298, Tri) F
CRICKETS, Think It Over (Сога! 450 72329, Tri) EX
CRICKETS, It's So Easy (Coral 450 72343, Тп) F
CRICKETS, Don't Ever Change (Liberty LIB 55441) M
CRICKETS, La Bamba (Liberty LIB 55696) EX
CRICKETS, My Little Girl (Liberty LIB 10067) EX
CRISPY AND COMPANY, Brazil (Creole CR 109) EX

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no middle)

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45 GARY CRISS, My Little Heavenly Angel (Stateside SS 123) G

45 CRITTERS, Younger Girl (London HLR 10047) F
45 BARRY CROCKER, Neighbours

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45 FRANKIE (LOVE MAN) CROCKER, My Confession Of Love

(Astroscope A107) EX
45 BING CROSBY, White Christmas (MCA BING P1, Pic disc) EX
45 BING CROSBY, White Christmas (Brunswick 03384) EX
45 BING CROSBY, Gigi (Brunswick 057 70) EX
45 BING CROSBY, Where The Blue Of The Night (Brunswick

05928) M
45 BING CROSBY, Many Happy Returns Of The Day

(Brunswick 05934, Demo) M
45 BING CROSBY, Now You Has Jazz (with Satchmo)

(Capitol CL 14643) EX
45 BING CROSBY, Well Did You Evah? (Capitol CL 14645) EX

45 BING CROSBY, Do You Hear What | Hear (Capitol CL 15326)M

45 BING CROSBY, Muskrat Ramble (MGM 1107, Demo) М
45 BING CROSBY, True Love (with Grace Kelly)
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45 BING CROSBY, At My Time Of Life (United Artists UP 36078,

Demo) EX
45 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH, Just A Song Before | Go

(Atlantic K10947) M
45 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG, American Dream

(PS, Atlantic A9003) M
45 CHRISTOPHER CROSS, Arthur's Theme

(Best That You Can Do) (Warners K17847) M
45 CHRISTOPHER CROSS, Ride Like The Wind

(PS, Warners К17582) M
45 CHRISTOPHER CROSS, Never be The Same

(PS, Warners K17736) EX
45 SHERYL CROW, All | Wanna Do / Strong Enough

(A&M SCJB2, Juke Box) M
45 CROWDED HOUSE, Don't Dream It's Over

(PS, Capitol CL 438) EX
45 CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR, Galaxy Of Love

(Mercury 6168.801) M
45 PABLO CROUSE, Love Will Find A Way (A&M AMS 7370) ЕХ
45 CRUISERS, Saturday Dance Again (EMI 2058) EX
45 SIMON CRUM, Enormity In Motion

(Capitol CL 15183, no middle) M
45 BOBBY CRUSH, The Chinese Bicycle (Phillips 6006.537) ЕХ
45 CRYSTAL PALACE F.C., Power To The Palace

(PS, Bus Stop BUS 1031) M
45 CUCKOO, What's It All About (PS, Geffen GFS 22329) M
45 CUDDLY TOYS, It's A Shame (PS, Fresh 39) M
45 JOE CUDDY, Any Dream Will Do (Rex R11090) M
45 CUFF LINKS, Tracy (MCA MU 1101) EX
45 CUFF LINKS, When Julie Comes Around (Decca 732592,

US issue) EX
45 XAVIER CUGAT ORCHESTRA, Chattanooga Choo Choo

(Mercury AMT 1186, Demo) M
45 XAVIER CUGAT ORCHESTRA, Watermelon Man

(Mercury AMT 1202, Demo) EX
45 MIKE CURB CONGREGATION, Burning Bridges

(Polydor 2058.075) EX
45 CULT, Rain (PS, Beggars Banquet BEG 147) M
45 CULT, Edie (Ciao Baby) (PS, Beggars Banquet BEG 230) M
45 CULTURE CLUB, Karma Chameleon (PS, Virgin VS 612) M
45 CULTURE CLUB, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

(PS, Virgin VS 230) M
45 CULTURE CLUB, Everything | Own (PS, Virgin BOY 100) M
45 CULTURE CLUB, Victims (Poster PS, Virgin VS 641) M

45 CULTURE CLUB, Time (Clock Of The Heart) (PS, Virgin VS 558)

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45 CULTURE CLUB, It's A Miracle (PS, Virgin VS 662)
45 CULTURE CLUB, Church Of The Poison Mind
(PS, Virgin VS 571)
45 CULTURE CLUB, The War Song (PS, Virgin VS 694)
45 CULTURE CLUB, I'm Afraid Of Me (PS, Virgin VS 509)
45 CULTURE CLUB, Move Away (PS, Virgin VS 845)
45 CUPID'S INSPIRATION, Yesterday Has Gone
(NEMS 56.3500)
45 CURE, Lovecats (PS, Fiction FICS 19)
45 CURE, The Caterpillar (PS, Fiction FICS 20)

45 CHANTAL CURTIS, Get Another Love (Pye 7P 5003, Demo)

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ADGE CUTLER & THE WURZELS, Drink Up Thy Zider
(Columbia DB 9031)

ADGE CUTLER & THE WURZELS, | Wish | Was

Back On The Farm (Columbia DB 8222)

CUTTING CREW, (1 Just) Died In Your Arms

(PS, Virgin SIREN 21)

JOHNNY CYMBAL, Mr Bass Man (London HLR 9682)
BILLY RAY CYRUS, Achy Breaky Heart

(PS, Mercury MER 373)

BILLY RAY CYRUS, Could've Been Me

(PS, Mercury MER 378)

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ROY "C", Shotgun Wedding (Island WI 273)

CADETS, If | Had My Life To Live Over (Pye 7N 17024)
GLEN CAMPBELL, By The Time | Get To Phoenix
(Ember S.249)

PAT CAMPBELL, The Deal (Major Minor MM 648)
FREDDY CANNON, Palisades Park (Stateside SS 101)
MARIAH CAREY, Dreamlover (PS, Columbia 659444)
CARPETTES, Johnny Won't Hurt You

(PS, GF, Beggars Banquet 32, Dbl. Pk)

CASTELLS, Sacred (London HLN 9392)

RAY CATHODE, Time Beat (Parlophone R4901)

DAID CASTLE, Ten To Eight (Parachute RRS 501)
CHAIN REACTION, This Eternal Flame (Gull GULS 43)
CHAKACHAS, Jungle Fever (Polydor 2121.064)
BRYAN CHALKER, A Daisy A Day (Chapter 1 SCH 185,
Demo)

CHEETAHS, Goodbye Baby (Phillips BF 1412)

CHER, Love Hurts (PS, Geffen GFS 16)

CHILD, What's A Nice Girl Like You (Pentagon PENT 1)
NEIL CHRISTIAN, That's Nice (Strike JH 301)
CIMARONS, Tradition (Vulcan VUL 1005)

ERIC CLAPTON, Cocaine (PS, RSO DWQ 6048,
Japanese issue)

ERIC CLAPTON, Another Ticket (PS, RSO 75)

DEE CLARK, Whispering Grass (London HL 8915, Tri)
PETULA CLARK, Kiss Me Goodbye (Pye 7N 17466)

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PETULA CLARK, Mr Orwell (PRT 7P 323) EX
SANFORD CLARK, Son-Of-A-Gun (London HLW 9026,

Round centre) EX
PATSY CLINE, Heartaches (Brunswick 45.05878) EX

ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Tonight (Phillips PB900, Demo) M
CLOUT, We'll Bring The House Down

(PS, Mooncrest JWL 1000) M
COASTERS, Yakety Yak (London HLE 8665, Tri) EX
COASTERS, Charlie Brown (London HLE 8819, Tri) EX
COASTERS, Poison Ivy (London HLE 8938, Round) VG

EDDIE COCHRAN, Weekend (London HLG 9362, Round) EX
EDDIE COCHRAN, Summertime Blues

(London HLU 8702, Tri) G
ALMA COGAN, We Got Love (HMV POP 670) EX
COLDPLAY, Violet Hill (PS, NME Parlophone Demo) M
CLAY COLE, Twist Around The Clock

(London HLP 9499, Demo) EX
LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS, Jennifer She Said
(Fold-out PS, Polydor COLEG 8) M
BOBBY COMSTOCK & THE COUNTS, Tennessee Waltz

(Top Rank JAR 223) EX
TIM CONNOR, Rosemary (Decca F11239) M
CONTRASTS, І Can't Get You Out Of My Mind

(Parlophone R5095) EX

ELVIS COSTELLO, The Only Flame In Town (PS, F/Beat XX37)EX

JULIE COVINGTON, Don't Cry For Me Argentina

(Rare PS, MCA 260) EX
CRASH, Trick Of The Heart (PS, GC Records 00785) EX
CRAZY ELEPHANT, Sunshine, Red Wine

(Major Minor MM 623) EX

CREAM, White Room (PS, RSO DW 3008, Japanese issue) EX
CREATURES, Wild Things (PS, Polydor POSPG 354, ры. РК) М
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL,

Sweet Hitchhiker (U.A. UP 35261) M
CRICKETS, When You Ask About Love (Coral 45Q 72382) EX
CHRISTINA, Baby You Can Drive My Car

(PS, Island WIP 6616, Demo) M
CRICKETS, Love's Made А Fool Of You (Coral Q72365) EX
CROSBY & NASH, Southbound Train (Atlantic К10192) EX
CRYSTALS, | Wonder (London HLU 9852) EX
CUDDLY TOYS, Astral Joe (PS, Fresh 20) M
CULT, 'Lil' Devil (PS, Beggars Banquet BEG 188) M
CYANMID, "It's Bumble" (PS, Cyanmid SECW 1006) M

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AIR SUPPLY, Greatest Hits (Arista 205545) M/M
JON ANDERSON, Olias Of Sunhallow

(GF, Warners K50261, Inner) M/M
ATOMIC ROOSTER, Death Walks Behind You

(GF, B&C CAS 1026) VG/VG

BAD COMPANY, Run With The Pack (Island ILPS 9346) EX/EX
B.J.H., Ring Of Changes (GF, Polydor POLH3) M/M
BEACH BOYS, Beach Boys Party (Capitol T2398, Mono) EX/EX
BEATLES, With The Beatles

(Parlophone PMC 1206, 2nd Press) EX/EX
BEATLES, A Hard Day's Night
(Parlophone PMC 1230, 2nd Press) EX/EX

BLACK SABBATH, Vol. 4 (Vertigo Swirl 6360.071, Bklt) EX/EX
ROBERT CALVERT, Capt. Lockheed

(СЕ, U.A. 29507, embossed, Bkit) M/M
CAMEL, Mirage (Deram SML 1107, no insert) EX/EX
CAMEL, Rain Dances (Decca TXS-R124, Inner) EX/EX

JIM CAPALDI, Whale Meat Again (Island ILPS 9254, Inner)EX/EX

CLEAR LIGHT SYMPHONY, Same (Virgin V2029) EX/EX
CREAM, Wheels Of Fire (GF, Polydor 582031, Mono) EX/EX
DEEP PURPLE, Who Do We Think We Are

(GF, Purple TPSA 7508, Lyrics) EX/VG
DEEP PURPLE, Burn (Purple TPS 3505, 1st Press) EX/EX
DETROIT SPINNERS, Same (Atlantic K40427) EX/EX
BOB DOWNES, Deep Down Heavy (EMI MEP 1412) EX/VG
BOB DYLAN, Planet Waves (Island ILPS 9261, Inner) EX/EX
DEEP PURPLE, Made In Japan

(GF, Harvest TPSP 351, 151 Press) EX/EX
DEEP PURPLE, Machine Head

(GF, Harvest TPSA 7504, Lyric) EX/EX
CARAVAN, Plump In The Night (Deram SDL R12) EX/EX

EVERLY BROTHERS, A Date With... (Warners WM 4028)EX/EX
E.L.P., Brain Salad Surgery

(GF, Manticore К53501 w Poster) EX/EX
FLEETWOOD MAC, Rumours (Warners K56344,

Lyrics / Poster) EX/EX
GROUNDHOGS, Split (GF, Liberty LBG 83401, Blk Ibl) EX/EX
BO HANSSON, Lord Of The Rings (Charisma 1059) М/М

JET HARRIS & TONY MEEHAN, Remembering (Decca REM1)M/M

HAWKWIND, Hall Of The Mountain Grill

(U.A. UAG 29672, Inner) EX/EX
ЛМІ HENDRIX, Crash Landing (Polydor 2310.398) EX/EX
JIMI HENDRIX, Midnight Lightning (Polydor 2310.415) EX/EX
DAN HICKS, Striking It Rich (GF, Island 9204,

cut-out w Inner, Rare) EX/EX
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, Volunteers (GF, RCA SF 8076) EX/EX
JETHRO TULL, Living In The Past

(GF, Chrysalis CJT1, Booklet) EX/EX

ELTON JOHN, Elton John (GF, DJM DJLPS 406, textured)EX/EX

ELTON JOHN, Empty Sky (GF, DJM DJLPS 403) EX/EX
KRAFTWERK, Autobahn (Vertigo 6360.620,

Spaceship label) EX/EX
LED ZEPPELIN, in Through The Out Door (SSK 5941,

outer & innr cvr) EX/EX
JOHN LENNON, Imagine (Apple PAS 10004) EX/EX
MONKEES, Meet The Monkees (ВСА RD 7644, Mono) EX/EX
MORGAN JAMES DUO, At The Bar Of Music

(Fontana SFL 13071) M/M
MORRIS ON, Son Of Morris On (Harvest SHSM 2012) EX/EX
MOUNTAIN, Nantucket Sleighride

(GF, Island ILPS 9148) EX/EX
PINK FLOYD, Dark Side Of The Moon

(GF, SHVL 904, Posters / Stickered sleeve) EX/EX
PINK FLOYD, Obscured By Clouds (SHSP 4020,

Rounded Siv) EX/EX
MIKE OLDFIELD, Tubular Bells (Virgin V2001) М/М
МІКЕ OLDFIELD, Exposed (GF, Virgin 3006) EX/EX
QUEEN, Queen II (GF, EMI EMA 767) EX/EX
CHRISTOPHER RAINBOW, Home Of The Brave

(Poly. 2383.338, Lyrics) M/M

ROLLING STONES, Big Hits etc. (Decca TRS 101, Poster) M/M

SPARKS, Indiscreet (Island ILPS 9345, GF) EX/EX
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Born To Run (GF, BS69170) M/M
STEELY DAN, Can't Buy A Thrill (ABC ABCL 5024) EX/EX

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45 MARVIN GAYE, That's The way Love Is (Tamla) EX
45 GLADYS KNIGHT PIPS, All | Need Is Time (Soul) М
45 SMOKEY ROBINSON, What's In Your Life For Me (Tamla) ЕХ
45 ROBINSON & MIRACLES, Abraham, Martin And John (Tamla)EX
45 ROSS / SUPREMES, + The Weight (Motown) EX
45 SUPREMES & 4 TOPS, l'm Glad About It (Tamla) EX
AS THE TEMPTATIONS, l'm Exception To The Rule (Gordy) M
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, Masterpiece (Gordy) M
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, Gonna Keep 'Til Win Love (Gordy) M
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, Plastic Man (Gordy) М
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, Please Return Love То Me (Gordy) M
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, It's Summer (Gordy) EX
45rpms US ATLANTIC
45 THE BOBBETTES, Mr. Lee (Atlantic) EX
45 CHARLES BROWN, We've Got A Lot In Common (East West)M
45 SOLOMON BURKE, Be Bop Grandma (Atlantic) EX
45 SOLOMON BURKE, Need Your Love So Bad (Atlantic) EX
45 THE CLOVERS, You Good Looking Woman (Atlantic) VG
45 HI-FI-DELS, Trickey Trickey (Atlantic) EX
45 IVORY JOE HUNTER, Just Want To Love You (Atlantic) EX
45 BETTY JOHNSON, Waltz Me Around (Demo, Atlantic) M
45 THE MADHATTANS, Wowie (Atlantic) EX
45 MICKEY & KITTY, The Kid Brother (Atlantic) EX
45 THE PEARLS, Shadow Of Love (Atco) EX
45 CARLA THOMAS, | Can't Take It (Atlantic) EX
45 JOE TURNER, Red Sails In The Sunset (Atlantic) EX
MIXED 45rpms
45 T REX, Ride White Swan/ls It Love (Fly) EX
45 TREX, Hot Love/Woodland Rock + (Fly) EX
45 TREX, Get It On/Raw Ramp (Fly) EX
45 TREX, Debora/1 Inch Rock + (Fly) EX
45 TREX, Telegram Sam./Cadillac + (T Rex) EX
45 TREX, Teenage Dream/Satisfaction Pony (EMI) EX
45 TREX, Born То Boogie/Solid Good Easy (ЕМІ) EX
45 TREX, 20th Century Boy/Free Angel (EMI) EX
45 TREX, 20th Century Boy/Midnight + (Marc) EX
45 THE SWEET, Hellraiser/Burning (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, Little Willy/Man From Mecca (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, Ballroom Blitz/Rock Roll Disgrace (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, Teenage Rampage/Own Up Look (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, The Six Teens/Burn On The Flame (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, Alexander Graham Bell/Sweet F.A. (RCA) EX
45 THE SWEET, Cover Girl/Love Is Likie Oxygen (Polydor) EX
45rpms TV & SPOOFS
45 TONY HATCH, Out Of This World (Sci-Fi Pic Cvr, Pye) M
45 ROBERT HORTON, Roll Along Wagon Train (Pye) EX
45 FLATT/SCRUGGS, Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Mercury) ЕХ
45 MEDWIN/BRESSLAW/BASS, The Army Game (HMV) EX
45 THE MAGICIANS, The Liars (Decca, nc) EX
45 PRATT & McCLAIN, Happy Days (Reprise) EX
45 МІТСН MILLER, The Longest Day (CBS) EX
45 BOBBY PATRICK BAND, Dallas/The Waltons

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45 KYU SAKAMOTO, Sukiyaki (Tokyo Theme) (HMV) M
45 DAVE SEALEY, It Takes A Thief (DJM) EX
45 E. SYKES/HATTIE JACQUES, Doctor Kildare (Decca, nc) EX
45 KEN THORNE, Legions Last Patrol (НМУ) M
45 THE WAYFARERS, Whistle Down The Wind (Decca) EX
45 JOHN WILLIAMS, Close Encounters (Pic Cvr, Arista) EX

45rpms US MERCURY
45 SIL AUSTIN, Wildwood (Sax Howler, Mercury) VG
45 SIL AUSTIN, Gone Again (Demo, Sax Inst., Mercury) EX
45 PEARL BAILEY, Can't Rock N Roll To Save My Soul (Mercury)M
45 THE BAYTOWNERS, All The Winds (Sunshine Pop,

Demo, Mercury) VG
45 JERRY BUTLER, Do You Finally Need A Friend (Mercury) M
45 JERRY BUTLER, Walking Around In Teardrops (Mercury) М
45 JERRY BUTLER, Since | Lost You Lady (Mercury) M
45 THE CARAVELLES, You Don't Have To Be Baby To Cry

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45 THE CARAVELLES, Ever Been Lonely/Don't Blow Cool

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45 GRADY CHAPMAN, Sweet Thing (Mercury) M
45 IKE CLANTON, Sugar Plum/I'm Guilty (Mercury) EX
45 THE CREW-CUTS, The Angelus (Mercury) EX
45 THE CREW-CUTS, I Like It Like That (Mercury) EX
45 THE DANLEERS, One Summer Night (Mercury) EX
45 THE DIAMONDS, The Church Bells May Ring (Mercury) EX
45 THE DIAMONDS, The Church Bells My Ring

(Reissue, Mercury) EX
45 THE DIAMONDS, Zip Zip (Mercury) EX
45 THE DIAMONDS, Love Love Love (Mercury) EX
45 RUSTY DRAPER, Buzz Buzz Buzz (Mercury) EX
45 RUSTY DRAPER, Big Mamou (Mercury) VG
45 RAY ETHIER, Slave Girl (Demo, Rockin’ Inst., Mercury) EX
45 CLAUDE GRAY, Let's End It Before It Begins (Mercury) EX
45 ILLINOIS JACQUET, Groovin’ (Mercury) EX
45 BUDDY JOHNSON, Buddy's Boogie (Mercury) EX
45 KEITH, 98.6 (Reissue) (Mercury) M

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RALPH MARTERIE, Maybellene (Mercury) M
MEGAN McDONOUGH, Blue-Eyed Soul (Mercury) M
BUDDY MORROW, Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie (Mercury) EX
BUDDY MORROW, Rib Joint (Sax Inst., Mercury) M
NEW COLONY SIX, Summertime's Another Name (Mercury) EX
PHIL PHILLIPS, Sea Of Love (Reissue) (Mercury) EX
RED PRYSOCK, Hand Clappin' (Mercury) EX
CHUCK REED, My Guitar's Out Of Tune (Mercury) VG
SPANKY & OUR GANG, Mecca Flat Blues (Mercury) EX
THE SPOTLIGHTS, Batman And Robin (Mercury) M
45rpms US SPECIALTY

JESSE BELVIN, Love Love Of My Life (Jiver, Specialty) M
CLEANHEAD/HIGGINS, Something Goin’ On My Room

(Specialty) M
DON and DEWEY, Koko Joe (Specialty) M
DON and DEWEY, Jelly Bean (Specialty) M
JOHNNY FULLER, Haunted House (Specialty) M
RODDY JACKSON, Hiccups/Moose On The Loose (Specialty) M
JOE LIGGINS, Little Joe's Boogie (Vocal, Specialty) M
PROF LONGHAIR, Cry Pretty Baby (Specialty) M
SONNY LOWERY, Goodbye Baby Goodbye (Rocker, Specialty)M
ROY MONTRELL, That Mellow Saxophone/O Doh-Wow
(Specialty)

ART NEVILLE, That Old Time Rock 'n' Roll (Specialty)
MARVIN PHILLIPS, Wine Woogie (Specialty)

LITTLE RICHARD, Keep A Knockin' (Specialty)

LITTLE RICHARD, She Knows How To Rock (Specialty)
LITTLE RICHARD, Jenny Jenny (Specialty)

LITTLE RICHARD, Shake A Hand (Specialty)

LESTER WILLIAMS, Brand New Baby (Specialty)

EPs all with PIC COVERS

BOSTREET RUNNERS, Love To You/Lonely Ave +
(Oak, Reissue) EX
FLANAGAN ALLEN, Together Again-Underneath Arches
(Columbia) EX
JOHNNY GREGORY, Bonanza! Laramie/Wagon Train --
(Fontana) M
BUDDY HOLLY, Listen To Me (Coral) EX
BUDDY HOLLY, Rave On (Coral) EX

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RICKY NELSON, Part 1. Shirley Lee/Someday + (London, Tri)EX

RICKY NELSON, Part 3. Unchained Melody/Walk Alone

(London) EX
RICKY NELSON, Part 4. Stood Up/Wait School/Bucket
(London, Tri) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Love Me Tender (НМУ) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Peace In The Valley (RCA) EX
ELVIS PRESLEY, Follow That Dream (RCA) EX
HANK WILLIAMS, Authentic Sound Of (MGM) EX
TV CENTURY, 21 Fireball XL5/Stingray/Dr.Who +

(Century 21) EX
MIXED LPs

BRENDA LEE, Miss Dynamite (Brunswick 8347) ЕХ
BRENDA LEE, Sincerely, Brenda Lee (Brunswick 8396) EX
BRENDA LEE, Emotions (Brunswick 8376) EX
BRENDA LEE, Merry Christmas (Brunswick 8590) VG
BRENDA LEE, All Alone Am | (Brunswick 8530) VG
BRENDA LEE, 25th Anniversary (MCA 609) M
BRENDA LEE, The Good Life (MCA 322) EX
BRENDA LEE, 10 Golden Years (MCA 201357) М
BRENDA LEE, A Whole Lotta (MCA 460) EX
BRENDA LEE, Little Miss Dynamite (Warwick) EX

BRENDA LEE, Dolly, Willie & Brenda (Monument 88611) М

ROY ORBISON, Oh, Pretty Woman (London HAU8207) EX
ROY ORBISON, In Dreams (London HAU8108) EX
ROY ORBISON, Crying (London HAU2437) EX
ROY ORBISON, The Orbison Way (London HAU8279) EX
ROY ORBISON, Early Orbison (Stereo Mon. SMQ5013) EX

ROY ORBISON, All Time Greatest Hits Of

(Monument S67290) EX
ROY ORBISON, The Best Of (Stereo,

Dutch Monument 50054) EX
ROY ORBISON, At The Rockhouse

(Sun Label, Charly CRM2007) EX
ROY ORBISON, Exciting Sounds (Sun Recordings,

Ember 5013) EX

ROY ORBISON, Roy Orbison & Others (Ember FA2005) M
FATS DOMINO, Million Sellers Vol. 2 (Liberty ІВҮЗ046) ЕХ

FATS DOMINO, Million Sellers Vol. 2 (Orig. Liberty LBL83024)EX

FATS DOMINO, Fats Domino (Liberty LXB9958) EX
FATS DOMINO, Fats Domino (U.A. UAD600156) EX
FATS DOMINO, The Very Best Of (Liberty LBS83331) EX

FATS DOMINO, The Very Best Of - Play It Again (U.A. 29467)EX

FATS DOMINO, Fats Domino 16 Great Tracks

(EMI MFP57471) EX
FATS DOMINO, 20 Greatest Hits (U.A. 29967) EX
FATS DOMINO, Fats Domino! (Sunset 50041E) M
FATS DOMINO, Let's Dance With (Domino Imperial 2CO68) EX
FATS DOMINO, What A Party (Imperial LP9164) EX
FATS DOMINO, Live In Las Vegas (Philips 6336217) EX
FATS DOMINO, The Collection 20 Golden Greats

(Dejavu DVLP2030) EX

EDDIE COCHRAN, Cherished Memories (Black LBY1109) ЕХ

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EDDIE COCHRAN, The Very Best Of (Gold Cover, Liberty L583337) ЕХ

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EDDIE COCHRAN, Memorial Album (Turquoise Liberty LBS83009E) ЕХ
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EDDIE COCHRAN, Memorial Album Black (Orig. LBS83009)EX 20.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, The Very Best Of (U.A. LA428E) EX 7.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, The Legendary (U.A. UAS29163) EX 8.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, A Legend In Our Time (Union Pacific) EX 1.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, The Singles Album (U.A. UAK30244) EX 5.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, Cherished Memories (Sunset SLS50289)EX 4.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, On The Air (U.A. UAS29380) EX 8.00
EDDIE COCHRAN, The Very Best Of (Gold Cover, Liberty LBS83337) EX
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EDDIE COCHRAN, The Very Best Of 15th Anniversary Album (П.А.

UAG29 760) EX

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THE BIG BEAT, Al Saxon/Duffy Power/Roy Young (Good Artwork, Great

UK RnR, Fontana 5080) EX
GARY U.S. BONDS, Quarter To Three (Rare T. Rank 35114) EX
CHUBBY CHECKER, For Your Dancin’ Party (Cam. Park.) EX
BOB CORT SKIFFLE, Ain't It A Shame (Decca) EX
BOBBY DARIN,.Story - Lazy River/Mack Knife (HAK2372) ЕХ
HIT MAKERS, Vol. 2 Berry/Shaw/Searchers/Kinks + (Pye) EX
JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES, Stormsville (HAI2269) NM

MEMORIES MADE, Vol. 2 Eddy/Shannon/Willis + (HAU8130)EX

THE MIGEL 5, Mockin' Bird Hill (Pye) EX
THE MILLS BROS., The Mills Bros Sing (HAD2250) EX

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JIM REEVES, Bimbo (HAU8015) EX
RHYTHM & BLUES PARTY, Ruth Brown/Sil Austin/
McPhatter/ L.Richard/Louis Jordan/Prysock

+ (Mercury 20019) EX
BOBBY RYDELL, The Best Of... (Black HAU8502) M
BOBBY RYDELL, Sings And Swings (Columbia) ЕХ
DENNY SEYTON, It's The Gear (14 Hits) (Wing) EX

JACK SCOTT, | Remember Hank Williams (UK T. Rank 034) EX
IKE & TINA TURNER, River Deep Mountain High (HAUS8298)EX
JOE TURNER, Rockin' The Blues (Edge Warp Plays OK,

London 2173) EX
JOE TURNER, Big Joe Is Here (Atlantic 8038) EX
JOE TURNER, The Best Of... 14 All Time Hits (Atlantic 8081)EX
JOE TURNER, And Pete Johnson (Emarcy 36014) EX

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45rpm SINGLES

Write to: DERRICK RIGBY, 2 TONG FORGE, LIZARD LANE,
SHIFNAL, SHROPSHIRE, ТҒ11 8QD. Tel: 07758 528765. Please
leave message if not available. UK postage is £1.50 for first +
0.25p each thereafter. Singles lists issued monthly including
£1.00 and 50p items. Also large numbers of LPs, EPs, AND 78s.
JOHNNIE RAY, Song Of The Dreamer (nc, US Columbia 1955) ЕХ

GEORGE HARRISON, What Is Life (nc, US Apple 1971) EX
PAT BOONE, Blueberry Hill (nc, London Germany 1959) EX
THE BATS, Listen To My Heart (Decca 1966) EX
DORIS DAY, If | Give My Heart To You (nc, US Columbia 1954) ЕХ
CARPENTERS, | Believe You (nc, US A&M 1976) EX
JIM REEVES, Am I That Easy To Forget (nc, US RCA 1973) EX

KITTY WELLS, You'll Never Be Mine Again (nc, US Decca 1959) EX
SLIM WHITMAN, Come Take My Hand (пс, US Imperial 1970) ЕХ
GEORGIA GIBBS, The Man That Got Away

(nc, US Mercury 1954) EX
MARIO LANZA, Because (nc, RCA Gold 1951) EX
LES PAUL / MARY FORD, Just One More Chance

(nc, US Capital 1954) VG
JOSH MACRAE, Messing About On The River (nc, Pye 1960) ЕХ
TEX RITTER, September Song (nc, US Capitol 1955) EX
FOUR ACES, Stranger In Paradise (nc, US Decca 1963) EX
JUNE VALLI, Oh Why (nc, US Mercury 1960) VG+
WILSON PICKETT, She Said Yes (nc, US Atlantic 1970) EX
BEVERLEY SISTERS, Left Right Out Of Your Heart

(Decca Tri 1958) EX
HANK AND AUDREY WILLIAMS, A Home In Heaven

(nc, US MGM 1958) EX
JILL COREY, | Love My Baby (nc, US Columbia 1956) EX
DAVID WHITFIELD, I'll Never Stop Loving You

(nc, US London 1955) EX
MINDY CARSON, Little Darlin Little Angel (nc, US RCA 1950) EX
THE DOLPHINS, Hey Da Da Dow (nc, US Fraternity 1964) EX
THE CHORDETTES, Lonely Lips (nc, US Cadence 1955) EX
DON EVERLY, Tumbling Tumbleweeds (nc, US Ode 7 1971) EX
JO STAFFORD, A Fool Such As | (nc, US Columbia 1953) EX
MARVIN GAYE / KIM WESTON, It Takes Two.

(Tamla Motown. 1967) EX
THE FOUR LADS, A House With Love In It

(nc, US Columbia 1956) EX
DEAN MARTIN, A Million And One (nc, US Capitol 1966) EX
CRAIG DOUGLAS, From Russia With Love (Decca 1963) EX

BRUCIE WEIL, Bimbo (nc, US RCA 1953) EX

60/70s GOLD

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P&P: 45 / EP: £1.50 LP: £4.50. Covers graded 1st.

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ANIMALS, It's My Life (65 mispress B Side ІРІ
on both sides,

Col. 7741) EX
COOKHIES, Don't Say Nothin Bad About My Baby

(6З Demo London 9704) VG
NEIL DIAMOND, Long Way Home

(73 Demo London 10427) M
DION / BELMONTS, When You Wish Upon A Star

(‘60 T. Rank JAR 368) VG
BILLY FURY, Hurtin’ Is Loving (67 Parl 5560) VG
BILLY FURY, Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt

(67 Parl 5658) VG
FORTUNES, | Can't Believe It's Over

“77 Rare Demo Target 135) M
MARVELETTES, Twistin’ Postman

(“61 Original USA Tamla 54054) VG
MIRACLES, You Really Got A Hold On Me

(62 Orig. USA Tamla 54073) VG
MIRACLES, Mickeys Monkey “63 Original USA

Tamla 54083) EX
DEL SHANNON, The Music Plays On

(“74 Rare Demo U/Artist 35740) M
SHIRELLES, Soldier Boy (62 НМУ POP 10109) EX
RAY STEVENS, Mr Businessman

“68 Demo Monument 1022) M
CRISPIAN ST. PETERS, Changes (66 Decca 12480) M
MARY WELLS, You Have Lost The Sweetest Boy

(‘63 Stateside 242) EX
JET HARRIS, ist EP, (62 Decca 8502) EX/EX
ELVIS, Jailhouse Rock (“58 1st Pressing Tri-centre

RCA RCX106) EX/VG
JIMMY SOUL, If You Wanna Be Happy

(‘63 V. Rare Stateside 10110) EX/VG
ABBA, Abba (75 Epic 80835) EX/EX
AMEN CORNER, Round Amen Corner

“68 Deram SML 1021) VG/EX
DAVID BOWIE, The World Of David Bowie

(“70 Decca SPA 58) EX/EX
DAVID, Live (74 Black Rca APL2-07 71) EX/EX
ELO, Out Of The Blue (78 Rare Blue Vinyl Poster/

Insert 161400) EX/EX/EX
ELTON JOHN, Elton John (70 GF DJM LPS 406) EX/EX
EVERLYS, It's Everly Time (60 W/Bros 4028) EX/EX
ADAM FAITH, Adam (60 Rare B/Gold Parl PMC 1128) EX/EX
BILLY FURY, Billy (“63 Red Decca LK 4533) VG/EX
FORTUNES, Fortunes ('65 Rare Stereo

Decca SKL 4736) EX/VG
KETTY LESTER, Love Letters ('63 1st Album London

HA-N 2455) EX/VG
MERSEYBEATS, Merseybeats (“64 Fontana ТІ 5210) VG/VG

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MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS, Heatwave

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45 THE ANIMALS, Bring It On Home To Me (Columbia DB 7539)EX
45 THE ANIMALS, Inside-Looking Out (Decca F 12332) EX
45 THE ANIMALS, I’m Crying (Columbia DB 7354) EX
45 BLUR, On Your Own (Clear White Vinyl, FOOD 98, Ріс 51) ЕХ
45 THE BLUESBREAKERS, Curly (Decca F 12588) EX
45 ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS, San Franciscan Nights

(Polydor POSP 534) EX
45 THE BLOW MONKEYS, This Is Your Life

(BMG PB 42695, Pic SI) EX/EX
33.3 BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST/ RED BIRD,

Negative Earth/Diamonds (Polydor Flexi Disc 7”) EX
45 JEFF BECK, Hi Ho Silver Lining (Columbia DB 8151) EX
45 BLUE CHEER, Summertime Blues (Philips BF 1646) VG
45 THE BEATLES, Hello, Goodbye (Parlophone R 5655) EX
EP THE BEATLES, Magical Mystery Tour (Bklt & Blue Lyric song

sht, solid centre, Mono, 2 EP discs, Parlophone MMT 1)EX/EX
45 THE CRICKETS, My Little Girl (Liberty LIB 10067) EX
45 THE CHANTAYS, Pipeline (London HLD 9696) EX
45 THE CARS, Drive (Elektra E 9706 Pic SI) EX/EX
45 CHICKEN SHACK, Га Rather Go Blind

(Blue Horizon 57-3153) EX
45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Sweetie Pie

(London American HLG 9196) EX
45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Weekend

(London American HLG 9362) EX
45 BOB DYLAN, Time They Are A-Changin’ (CBS 201751) EX
EP BOB DYLAN, Dylan (CBS 6051 Pic SI) EX/EX
45 BOB DYLAN, Lay Lady Lay (CBS 3945) EX
45 ВОВ DYLAN, Subterranean Homesick Blues (CBS 201753) VG
45 THE DIXIE CUPS, Chapel Of Love (Pye 7N 25245) EX
45 SKEETER DAVIS, The End Of The World (RCA 2356) EX
45 THE DELLS, Sing A Rainbow (Chess CRS 8099) EX
45 PAUL EVANS, Hushabye Little Guitar (London HLL 9239) EX
45 TOMMY EDWARDS, It's All In The Game (MGM 989) EX
33.3 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, Brain Salad Surgery

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THE FOUR TOPS, Loving You 15 Sweeter Than Ever

(Tamla TMG 568) EX
THE FOUR TOPS, If | Were A Carpenter (Tamla TMG 647) ЕХ
THE FOUR TOPS, Do What You Gotta Do (Tamla TMG 710) EX

THE FOUR TOPS, What Is A Man (Tamla TMG 698) EX
SHANE FENTON & THE FENTONES, I’m A Moody Guy

(Parl. R 4827) EX
THE FENDERMEN, Mule Skinner Blues (Top Rank JAR 395) EX

EDDY GRANT, Electric Avenue (ICE 57, Pic SI) EX/EX
DON GIBSON, Sea Of Heartbreak (RCA 1234) EX
MARVIN GAYE (Sexual) Healing (CBS A2855) EX
MARVIN GAYE, | Heard It Through The Grapevine

(Tamla TMG 686) EX
EDDIE HOLMAN (Hey There) Lonely Girl (ABC 4012) EX
THE HAPPENINGS, My Mammy (Pye 7N 25501 - Solid) EX

THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, Voodoo Chile

(Track 2095 001, Pic SI) EX/VG
THE HUNTERS, Golden Earrings (Fontana Н 303) EX
INADEQUATES, Pretty Face (Capitol CL 15051) EX

JAN & DEAN, She's My Summer Girl (Liberty LIB 55580) ЕХ
TOMMY/SHONDELLS, Do Something To Me

(Roulette RO 500) EX
JAY AND THE AMERICANS, Some Enchanted Evening

(U.A. UP 1108) EX
THE JAGS, The Hunch (Decca F 11397) EX

JIMMY JAMES & THE VAGABONDS, Marble & Iron (EMI 2127)ЕХ

GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, If | Were Your Woman

(Tamla TMG 765) EX
GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, Take Me In Your Arms

(Tamla TMG 604) EX
GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, The Look Of Love

(Tamla TMG 844) EX
THE KINKS, See My Friend (PYE 7N 15919) EX
CURTIS KNIGHT & JIMI HENDRIX, How Would You Feel

(Track 604009) EX
ROBERT KNIGHT, Everlasting Love (Monument MNT 4900,
Blue vinyl) EX
THE LOVE AFFAIR, Baby | Know (CBS 4631) EX

BOB LUMAN, Let's Think About Living (Warner WB 18) EX
KETTY LESTER, Roses Grow With Thorns

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CURTIS LEE, A Night At Daddy Gee's (London HLX 9533) EX
THE MARMALADE, Wait For Me Mary-Ann (CBS 3708) EX
ERNIE MARESCA, Shout! Shout! Knock Yourself (Out)
(London HLU 9531) EX
MADNESS, Our House (Stiff Records Buy 163, Pic 51) EX/VG
JOHN MAYALL (AND BLUESBREAKERS), The Bluesbreakers
With Paul Butterfield (Decca DFF R8673, Pic SI) EX/VG
PINK FLOYD, Another Brick In The Wall (Harvest Har 5194) EX
LLOYD PRICE, Stagger Lee (HMV POP 580) EX
PREFAB SPROUT, Looking For Atlantis

(Kitchenware SK 47, Pic SI) EX/EX
THE PARAMOUNTS, Poison Ivy (Parlophone R 5093) EX
WILSON PICKETT, Don't Fight It (Atlantic AT 4052) EX

WILSON PICKETT, In The Midnight Hour (Atlantic AT 4036) EX
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS, Ebb Tide (London HLU 10011)EX

OTIS REDDING, My Girl (Atlantic AT 4050) EX
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45 RAM JAM, Black Betty (Epic EPC 5492) EX 6.00
45 THE ROUTERS, Let's Go (Pony) (Warner Bros WB/7) EX 8.00
45 RHET STOLLER, Chariot (Decca F 11302) EX 11.00
45 SONNY, The Revolution Kind (Atlantic AT 4060) EX 7.00
45 EDWIN STARR, Stop The War Now (Tamla TMG 764) EX 6.50
45 SLIPKNOT, Vermilion (Roadrunner RR3977-T7, Pic Disc) EX 22.00
45 THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS, Hippy Hippy Shake

(HMV POP 1242) EX 8.00
45 THE SHANGRI — LAS , Remember (Walkin' in The Sand)

(Red Bird RB 10008) EX 11.00
45 SMALL FACES, Itchycoo Park (Immediate IMS 102) EX 8.00
45 SMALL FACES, Whatcha Gonna Do About It

(Decca F 12208) EX 13.00
45 THE TROGGS, With A Girl Like You (Fontana TF 717) EX 7.50
45 THE TYMES, So Much In Love (Cameo-Parkway P 871) EX 9.00
45 THEM, Here Comes The Night (Decca F 12094) EX 8.50
45 JETHRO TULL, Living In the Past (Island WIP 6056) EX 9.00
45 THE TEMPTATIONS, Papa Was A Rolling Stone

(Tamla TMG 839) EX 8.00
45 THE TEMPTATIONS (I Know) l'm Losing You (Tamla TMG 587)EX 16.00
45 TRAFFIC, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

(Island WIP 6025, Pic Sl, Pink Solid) EX/VG 12.00
45 THE UPSETTERS, Return Of Django (Upsetter US 301) EX 18.00
45 GENE VINCENT, Lucky Star (Capitol CL 15243) EX 16.00
45 THE VOGUES, You're The One (London НЩ) 9996) EX 18.00
45 THE VENTURES, Ram-Bunk-Shush (London HLG 9292) EX 7.00
45 THE VISCOUNTS, Fee Fi Fo Fum (Pye TN 15287) EX 7.50
45 VANILLA FUDGE, Where Is My Mind (Atlantic 584179) EX 9.50
45 JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS, Take Me Girl, I’m Ready

(Tamla TMG 840) EX 8.50
45 MARY WELLS, My Guy (Stateside SS 288) EX 9.50
45 THE WHO, Substitute (Reaction 591001) EX 16.00
45 CHRIS WILLIAMS AND HIS MONSTERS, The Monster

(Columbia DB 4383) EX 13.00
45 YARDBIRDS, Evil Hearted You (Columbia DB 7706) EX 8.50
45 YARDBIRDS, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

(Columbia DB 8024) EX 26.00

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LP THE WHO, My Generation (Brunswick LAT 8616) EX/EX 550.00
LP THE WHO, A Quick One (Reaction 593002) EX/EX 150.00
LP THE WHO, Sell Out (Track 613-002) EX/EX 150.00
LP THE WHO, Live At Leeds (Track 246-001) EX/EX 80.00
LP DEEP PURPLE, Shades Of (Parlophone PCS 7055) EX/EX 400.00

LP DEEP PURPLE, The Book Of Taliesyn (Harvest SHVL /51)EX/EX 200.00

45 ROBERTA FLACK*, Killing Me Softly With His Song

(Atlantic K 10282) EX 5.00
A5 JANIS JOPLIN*, Move Over (PS, CBS S 9136,

Maxi with 4 trks) EX/EX 15.00
45 BEN E KING*, It's All Over (Atlantic AT 4007) EX 10.00
45 PATTY LA BELLE & HER BELLES*, Over The Rainbow

(Atlantic AT 4064) EX 7.00
45 BRENDA LEE*, Too Little Time (Brunswick 05957) M 20.00
45 BOB MARLEY*, No Woman No Cry (Island WIP 6244,

1981 reissue) EX 6.00
45 VAN MORRISON*, Bright Side Of The Road

(Mercury 6001 121) EX 6.00
45 ANN PEEBLES*, | Can't Stand The Rain (London НІШ 10428)EX 5.00
45 АММ PEEBLES*, (You Keep Me) Hangin' On

(London HLU 10468) EX 5.00
45 ESTHER PHILLIPS*, Let Me Know When It's Over

(Atlantic AT 4048) EX 6.00
45 PINK FLOYD*, Take It Back (EMI EM 309,

Jukebox release, plays EX) VG 10.00
45 DORY PREVIN*, Coldwater Canyon (Warner Bros. К 16458)EX 6.00
45 GERRY RAFFERTY*, Mary Skeffington (Logo GO 314) EX 5.00
45 MINNIE RIPERTON*, Lovin' You (Epic S EPC 3121) EX 5.00
45 LINDA RONSTADT*, Different Drum (Capitol CL 15933) EX 5.00
45 SPLINTER, Costafine Town (Dark Horse AMS 7135) EX 5.00
45 STATE, | Only Wish (Zima ZMA 301 with titled

die-cut sleeve) EX/EX 15.00
45 CAT STEVENS*, Two Fine People (Island WIP 6238, DJ copy)EX 5.00
45 STRETCH, Why Did You Do It (Anchor ANC 1021) EX 5.00
45 JOE TEX*, Papa Was Too (Atlantic 584068) EX 6.00
45 JOE TEX*, Woman Like That, Yeah (Atlantic 584119) EX 6.00
45 JOE EX*, Go Home And Do It (Atlantic 584212) EX 5.00
45 TONY JOE WHITE *, Groupy Girl (Monument MON 1043) EX 5.00
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LP AVERAGE WHITE BAND*, Cut The Cake (Atlantic К 50146)EX/EX 8.00
LP JOAN BAEZ*, Diamonds & Rust (A&M АМЕН 64527) EX/EX 10.00
LP JACKSON BROWNE*, Jackson Browne (Asylum SYL 9002)EX/EX 10.00

LP JACKSON BROWNE*, Running On Empty (Asylum K 53070)EX/EX 10.00
LP JACKSON BROWNE*, World In Motion (Germany,

Elektra EKT50) EX/EX 1.00

LP SPENCER DAVIS GROUP, ist (Fontana TL 5242) EX/EX 90.00
LP SPENCER DAVIS GROUP, 2nd (Fontana TL 5295) EX/EX 80.00
LP SPENCER DAVIS GROUP, Autumn (Fontana TL 5359) EX/EX 60.00
LP SMALL FACES, Same (Decca LK 4790) EX/EX 250.00
LP CREAM, Disraeli Gears (Reaction 593.003) EX/EX 100.00
LP TEN YEARS AFTER, Watt (Deram SML 1078) EX/EX 60.00
LP EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND, Same (Harvest SHVL 791) EX/EX 90.00
LP | KING CRIMSON, In The Court Of The Crimson King

(Island ILPS 9111) EX/EX 300.00
LP VANILLA FUDGE, Near The Beginning (Atco 228.020) EX/EX 25.00
ІР THE HOLLIES, Evolution (Parlophone PMC 7022) EX/EX 50.00
LP IF, Three (UAG 29158) EX/EX 50.00
ІР BYRDS, Preflyte (Columbia C32183) EX/EX 25.00
LP BYRDS, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (CBS 63353) EX/EX 45.00
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LP JOHN ENTWISTLE, Smash Your Head (Track 2406-005)ЕХ/ЕХ 30.00
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LP КЕЕҒ HARTLEY, Halfbreed (Deram SML 1037) EX/EX 65.00
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LP JOHN MELLENCAMP, Other People's Stuff (Republic) NEW 15.00
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PRO ANIMALS, R 'n' B 1964 Programme EX 30.00
ТКТ AC/DC, Southampton 7/2/78 Ticket VG 30.00
TKT KATE BUSH, Southampton 7/4/79 Ticket G 25.00
TKT DAVID BOWIE, Romford 22/5/73 Ticket G 45.00
PRO DCS / KINKS, 1966 Tour Programme VG 25.00
PRO Dr FEELGOOD, Be Seeing You Tour Programme EX 20.00
PRO EDDIE & HOTRODS, Spring Tour 1978 Programme EX 18.00
PRO FABULOUS POODLES, 1977 Tour Programme EX 18.00
PRO RORY GALLAGHER, 1980 Tour Programme EX 20.00
PRO R GALLAGHER / FACES, Great Western Express 1971

Programme G 45.00
ТКТ INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, Brighton Dome 1969 Ticket ЕХ 15.00
PRO LYNYRD SKYNYRD, British Road 1977 Programme VG 30.00
TKT PUBLIC IMAGE LTD, Brighton 2/11/83 Ticket EX 15.00
PRO TANGERINE DREAM, 1974 Tour Programme EX 20.00
PRO SAHB, Tomorrow Belongs To Me Programme G 20.00
PRO SLADE / THIN LIZZY, 1972 Tour Programme EX 35.00
FLY SLITS / RAINCOATS, Electric Ballroom Camden 1980 Flyer G 60.00
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45 MAXINE BROWN*, All In My Mind (London НШ 9286) VG
45 KATE BUSH*, Moments Of Pleasure (ЕМІ ЕМІН 297,
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45 CHICKEN SHACK, Tears In The Wind (Blue Horizon 57-3160)EX

45 TONY CLARKE*, The Entertainer

(Chess CRS 8091, 1969 reissue) EX
45 DRIFTERS*, Dance With Me (London HLE 8988) EX
45 DRIFTERS*, I'll Take You Home (London НІК 9785) M
45 DRIFTERS*, We Gotta Sing (Atlantic AT 4062) M

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(USA, Tower ST 5114) VG/VG 15.00
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LP JOE COCKER", Stingray (A&M АМЕН 64574, 1st press) EX/EX 15.00
ІР YVONNE ELLIMAN*, | Don't Know How To Love Him

(Polydor 2383 141) EX/EX 9.00
LP YVONNE ELLIMAN*, Love Me (RSO 2394 182) EX/M 8.00
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wear around edges & some creasing) G/EX 20.00
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Spaceship 1015, early press) EX/EX 18.00
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(US Epic BN 26427) VG/VG 25.00
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& giant Poster) EX/EX 15.00
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Reggae artists from 1969) EX/VG 15.00
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GREGG ALLMAN, The Gregg Allman Tour

(74 Capricorn 2C 0141 USA) EX/EX/EX 20.00
BAND, Stage Fright (1970 Capitol EA-SW 425

Lemon Col. ІРІ Orig. + Ins) EX/EX 20.00
BEATLES*, Sgt. Pepper (67 PMC 7027 Mono

1st Press w Red Inner + cut-out sht) EX/EX 60.00
BEATLES, Hey Jude (Parl. PCSJ149 S. Africa,

Lam. Cvr w external rear flaps) EX/EX 23.00
BEATLES, Let It Be (PCS 7096, Full Lam. Cvr) EX/EX 20.00
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DAVID BOWIE, Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (SF 8287,

1st Press Matrixes BGBS 064 1E / 065 2E w Titanic /

Chrysalis credit on ІРІ. GEM Prod. on Rear Cvr + inner) EX 120.00
CARPENTERS, Close To You (1970 AMLS 998, EX+) EX/EX 4.50
CARPENTERS, Carpenters (1971 AMLS 63502) EX/EX 4.50
JIMMY CLIFF, The Power & The Glory (83 CBS 25761, Nr M) EX/EX 6.00
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG, So Far (K 50023 Germany)EX/EX 9.00
DAMNED*, Phantasmagoria (MCF 3275 + Inner) EX/M 9.00
DEEP PURPLE*, The Book Of Taliesyn (Harvest Germany

in Lam. GF, ЕХ-- copy) EX/EX 30.00

DEEP PURPLE, Fireball (Harvest SHVL 793 Australia 4- Lyr Sht, disc Nr M) EX/

EX 25.00
DEEP PURPLE, Machine Head (TPSA 7504, Lam. GF Cvr) EX/EX
DEEP PURPLE, Made In Europe (76 TPSA 7517) EX/EX

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E.L.O., Time (81 JET LP 236 + Inner) EX/EX
GARY FARR & T. BONES, London 1964-1965

(Charley 300015) EX/EX
BRYAN FERRY, Let's Stick Together (76 ILPS 9176) EX/EX
FLEETWOOD MAC & CHRISTINE PERFECT, Albatross

(CBS 31569) EX/EX

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RORY GALLAGHER, Fresh Evidence (1990 CAPOLP 14, ЕХ-- copy)EX/EX20.00

GUANA BATZ, Held Down At Last (NOSE 4 + inner,

small sticker mk) EX/EX
GUN, Taking On The World (AMA 7007 + Inner, EX+) EX/EX
HEADBOYS, Headboys (RSS 13 + Insert) EX/EX
HEART, Bad Animals (87 ESTU 2032 + Inner) EX/EX
JAM, All Mod Cons (78 POLD 5008, Cvr Nr EX,

clear tape on edges, otherwise fine) VG/EX
ELTON JOHN, Sleeping With The Past

(89 838 839-1 + Inner) EX/EX

KING CRIMSON, In The Wake Of Poseidon (ILPS 9127 Pink Lbl,
1st Press) EX/EX
KINKS, 20 Golden Greats (78 RPL 2031, disc Near M) EX/EX
KRAFTWERK, Autobahn (74 Vertigo 6360 620 Spaceship ШЫ,
Embossed Cvr, small sticker mk) EX/EX

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LED ZEPPELIN, Four Symbols (К 50008 + inner, 80s Issue, EX+)EX/EX20.00
LED ZEPPELIN, The Song Remains The Same (2LP, Swansong SS 89402

Germany in Orig. Textured Cvr w BIk Inners + Bklt,

ЕХ+ copy, discs v. nr M) EX/EX/EX
LED ZEPPELIN, In Through The Out Door
(‘79 Swansong 59410 Portugal іп Lam. Cvr) EX/VG

A. L. LLOYD, Leviathan (1967 Topic 12T174 + Lyric Booklet) EX/EX

MADONNA*, The First Album (WX 22 + Inner, Nr M) EX/EX
PINK FLOYD, Relics (MFP 50397, Nr M) EX/EX
ROBERT PLANT, The Principles Of Moments

(79-0101-1 Germany + Inner) EX/EX
ROLLING STONES*, Between The Buttons

(67, SKL 4852, Stereo, 1st Press) EX/EX
ROLLING STONES, Still Life (American Concert 1981,

CUN 39115 + inner, EX+) EX/EX

ROLLING STONES, Tattoo You (81 CUNS 39114 + Inner, EX+)EX/EX

ROLLING STONES, Emotional Rescue

(80 CUN 39111, disc Nr Mint) EX/EX
SCORPIONS, Animal Magnetism (80 SHSP 4113 + Inner,

disc Nr Mint) EX/EX
SIMON & GARFUNKEL*, Bookends (CBS 563181,

Orange Ы + CBS inner) EX/EX
SIMON & GARFUNKEL, The Sound Of Silence (CBS 562690,

Orange Lbl) EX/EX
TASTE, Taste (“69 Polydor 583042, small hole in centre

of Cvr. disc EX+) EX/EX
THIN LIZZY, Johnny The Fox (76 Vertigo 9102 012,

Spaceship ІРІ + Inner) EX/EX
TROGGS, Best Of The Troggs (1967 Page One FOR 001,

52 EX, 51 few light mks, Nr EX) EX/VG
GORDON TURNER, Meditation (1970 CAS 1009,

Pink Scroll Lbl, Nr M) EX/EX
JOHNNY WINTER, Still Alive And Well (73 CBS S 65484,

Orng Ы, Italy, GF) EX/EX
YES, Close To The Edge (Orig. 72 K50012 w Lyr. Inner

+ textured Cvr) VG/EX
FRANK ZAPPA*, Joe's Garage Act 1 (79 CBS 86101

Portugal, GF Cvr) EX/EX

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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

MIXED SINGLES

Write to: COLIN WILKINSON, "TORLAND", KNOCKANDO,

ABERLOUR, SCOTLAND, AB38 7RX. Tel: 01340 810506 after
6pm. Answer machine before or 07776 264004 if problems with
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NO TEXTS. P&P extra. 12"/10"/Shaped Picture Disc £4.00 or £
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Many EX grade nearer to Mint.

MIXED 7" / 12" SINGLES. 2 grades indicate PS. * = more by artist

ADAM & THE ANTS, Ant Music (80 CBS 9352) EX/EX
ADAM & THE ANTS*, Stand & Deliver (81 CBS A1065) EX/EX
AEROSMITH, Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

(90 Geffen Germany СЕҒ/2, Nr M) EX/EX

ALLMAN BROTHERS, Straight From the heart ('81 ARIST 432) EX
ANIMALS, It's My Life (65 DB 7741, EX+) EX
ANTHRAX, Bring The Noise (91 IS 490,

1 sided etched disc, Near Mint) EX/EX
EP BEATLES, Beatles Hits (“63 1st Press, СЕР 8880,

some light mks, plays EX) EX/VG
BEATLES, | Want To Hold Your Hand (63 R5084,

1st Press in Co. Cvr) EX
BEATLES, Hello, Goodbye / | Am the Walrus

(1967 151 Press in Co. Cvr, few light mks, plays EX) EX
BEATLES, Hey Jude (1968 R5722 1st Press in Apple Cvr,

lovely Nr M copy) EX/EX
BEATLES, Hey Jude (1968 R5722 1st Press in Apple Су) EX/EX

BEATLES, Love Me Do (2012 Red Lbl, 45-R-4949,
Rare withdrawn mis-press w wrong Cat. No. 45-R-4714
On B-Side Lbl, Nr M) EX

BON JOVI, Livin’ On A Prayer ('86 VER 28) EX/EX
JON BON JOVI, Blaze Of Glory (90 JBJ 1, Near Mint) EX/EX
BETTY BOO, Doin' The Do (1990 LEFT 39) EX/EX
BETTY BOO, Where Are You Baby? (90 LEFT 43) EX/EX

DAMNED*, There Ain't No Sanity Clause / Looking At You (Live)

(80 NS92, Nr M) EX
DEREK & DOMINOES / ERIC CLAPTON, Layla/Wonderful
Tonight (RSO 87) EX

DIO, Rock 'n' Roll Children (85 D 105) EX/EX
DOTTI & THE DIPLOMATS, Made In Hong Kong (80 MAG 171)EX/EX
E.L.O., The Diary Of Horace Wimp (‘79 JET 150) EX
E.L.O., Shine A little Love (79 JET 144) EX
E.L.O., Twighlight (81 JET 7015) EX/EX
E.L.P., Fanfare For The Common Man (77 K 10946,

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FLEETWOOD MAC*, Go Your Own Way (76 K 16872,
small name on rear Cvr) EX/EX

FOCUS, Sylvia (72 2001-422) EX
FOREIGNER, Hot Blooded (78 K 11167,

Red vinyl in Printed PVC Cvr) EX/EX
FOREIGNER, Urgent ('81 К11665 in Clear Slv w "Urgent"

Stickers Ins) EX/EX
GIRL, Hollywood Tease ('80 JET 176) EX/EX
GRAPEFRUIT, Deep Water (‘69 ВСА 1855, Near Mint) EX
GEORGE HARRISON, Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

(73 Apple R 5988 in Apple Cvr, EX+) EX
12" IRON MAIDEN, Be Quick Or Be Dead (3 Trk, 12 EMPO 229

Pic disc + Ins, Nr M) EX
MICHAEL JACKSON, One Day In Your Life (75 TMG 976, Nr Mint)EX
MICHAEL JACKSON, Ben (72 ТМС 834) EX
JUDAS PRIEST, Diamonds & Rust (77 CBS 5222, Promo) EX
KILLING JOKE, А New Day (84 EGO 17, Near Mint) EX/EX

KINKS, Tired Of Waiting For You (65 7М157509,
lovely EX+ Orig. in Pye Cvr) EX
LED ZEPPELIN*, Rock & Roll (Atlantic 45-2865 USA, Near Mint) EX

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JOHN LENNON, Power То The People (‘71 R 5892 in Rare Ріс Cvr)VG/EX 7.00

JOHN LENNON, Nobody Told Me (84 POSP 700) VG/EX
LINDISFARNE, Court In The Act (72 CB. 199) EX

LITTLE STEVEN, Out Of The darkness (‘84 EA 174) EX/EX
10" EP MANISH BOYS / DAVY JONES & LOWER THIRD,

| Pity The Fool / You've Got A Habit Of Leaving Me

(4 Түк, '82 Charley CYM 1, EX+) EX/EX

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS, No Woman, No Cry (74 WIP 6244)ЕХ

PAUL McCARTNEY, We All Stand Together (‘84 R 6086) EX/EX
PAUL McCARTNEY, Only Love Remains

('86 R 6148, disc Nr M, Cvr Nr EX) VG/EX
PAUL McCARTNEY, Press (86 R 6133, EX+ copy) EX/EX
MOODY BLUES, Talking Out Of Turn (81 TH 23, Cvr Nr EX) EX/EX

MOTT THE HOOPLE, Roll Away The Stone
(T1 S CBS 1895, Nr Mint) EX
NIRVANA (feat. Joe Fagan), Restless Wind

(79 Pepper UP 36538, Demo) EX/EX
P.I.L.*, Rise (86 VS 841) EX/EX
12" PJ.L., Seattle (3 Track) (87 VS 988, Nr Mint) EX/EX
12" ROBERT PLANT, Burning Down One Side (3 Trk,

'82 SSK 129429T) EX/EX

COZY POWELL, Dance With The Devil (73 RAK 164) EX
PRETENDERS*, Message Of Love (81 ARE 15, EX+) EX/EX
PRIMITIVES*, Crash (‘88 PB 41761) EX/EX
PROCOL HARUM, A Whiter Shade Of Pale ('67 DM 126) EX
PSYCHIC TV, Godstar / Discopravity (84 TOPYS 009,

2X1” Dbl. Pk, GF) EX/EX/EX
QUEEN*, Seven Seas Of Rhye (74 ЕМІ 2121) EX
QUEEN*, Killer Queen (74 EMI 2229) EX

ROXY MUSIC*, All | Want Is You (74 WIP 6208 Pink Rim ІРІ Orig.)EX

12" SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK, 21st Century Boy
(86 12 555 2, Nr Mint)

SIOUXSIE & BANSHEES, Hong Kong Garden (‘78 2059 052,
Paper Lbl) EX

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SIOUXSIE &THE BANSHEES, Dear Prudence (‘83 SHE 4) EX/EX
SPLIT ENZ, | Got You (79 AMS 7546) EX/EX
SPLODGENESSABOUNDS, Two Little Boys ('80 ROLF 1) EX/EX
RINGO STARR, It Don't Come Easy (71 R 5898, Cvr Nr Ех) VG/EX
STATUS QUO, Down Down ('74 Vertigo 6059 114) EX
STEELY DAN, Do It Again (72 D-2600 USA, EX+) EX
SWINGING LAURELS, Rodeo (82 SAX 10) EX/EX
SWINGING LAURELS, Lonely BOY (“83 X 9894) EX/EX
THUNDER, The Devil Made Me Do It (2006- STC. 2006-7,

Near Mint) EX/EX
T. REX, Laser Love (“76 MARC 15, In T. Rex Cvr) EX/EX
T. REX, Solid Gold Easy Action (72 MARC З in T. Rex Cvr) EX/EX
BONNIE TYLER, More Than A Lover (‘77 PB 5008) EX
BONNIE TYLER, It’s A Heartache (‘77 PB 5057) EX
12” URIAH HEEP, Poor Little Rich Girl (3 Track, TX 6309,

Near Mint) EX
WHO, Squeeze Box (‘75 Polydor 2121 275) EX
WHO, 5.15 (‘73 Track 2094 115, Near Mint) EX
WHO, Happy Jack (66 Reaction 591010) EX
12” X.T.C., * Senses Working Overtime (4 trk, ‘82 VS 462,

EX+ copy) EX/EX
YES, Wonderous Stories (77 K 10999) EX

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RARE REISSUES for Everyone

Write to: COLIN WILKINSON, “TORLAND”, KNOCKANDO,

ABERLOUR, SCOTLAND, AB38 7RX. Tel: 01340 810506 after 6pm.

Answer machine before or 07776 264004 if problems with

landline. Please leave your CONTACT NUMBER with any message.
NO TEXTS. P&P extra. 1 LP £4.00 + £5.00 for up to 4 SINGLE

LPs. Doubles —2LPs Triples —3 (Special delivery/ insurance

extra). BUY 3 for Free UK P&P. Overseas customers please note
we accept WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM, 1 MO or STERLING. NO
OTHER CURRENCY. Postage at cost. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND
RECORDED SIGNED FOR (£1.00 EXTRA) ON ALL ORDERS OVER

£20.00. Post cheques to C. Wilkinson. Send an S.A.E. or

International Reply Coupon with written orders or requests for a
reply. Please PRINT your NAME, ADDRESS & POSTCODE on all
correspondence. COLLECTIONS ALSO BOUGHT. * = more by artist
REISSUES & TITLES NEW IN FOR NOVEMBER (Not yet on List). Very

Limited Stock!
All Plus Post & Packing. Or BUY ANY 3 or more for FREE UK P&P
AFTER ALL, After All (Rare 1969 USA Psyche /

Prog with Insert) NEW
BENJAMIN DELANEY LION, Satori (Late 60s Super Rare Psych Folk,

Seelie Court) NEW
FIRE AIR WATER (Feat. SKY SAXON), Golden Sunrise

(Splatter Vinyl + Ins) NEW
GILGAMESH, Gilgamesh (Rare 1975 Jazz / Rock, Red Vinyl) NEW
GOLIATH, Goliath (Rare 1969 USA Hard Rock) NEW
HAYMARKET SQUARE, Magic Lantern

(68 Rare US Underground Psyche, Guerssen) NEW
STONE HARBOUR, Emerges (Rare 1974 USA Private

Press Lo Fi Psyche) NEW
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AFFINITY, Affinity (Repertoire 180g) NEW
AMBROSE SLADE, Ballzy (US Version Of "Beginnings ”) NEW
ARZACHEL, Arzachel (White Vinyl) NEW

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ATOMIC ROOSTER*, Atomic Rooster (Their 1st LP,

Music On Vinyl 180g) NEW
AUDIENCE, Friends, Friends, Friends (+ 1 Bonus Track,

180g Grn Vinyl) NEW
BLACK WIDOW, Black Widow (From 1970, Repertoire 180g) NEW
TIM BLAKE, Crystal Machine (+ 3 Bonus Tracks) NEW
BODKIN, Three Days After Death (ACME 180g) NEW

BRAINTICKET*, Cotton Wood Hill (Their 1st LP, 180g Clear Vinyl)NEW

CAIR PARAVEL, Some Other Morning (From 1976) NEW
CHRISTOPHER, Christopher (From 1970) NEW
COMUS, First Utterance (Music On Vinyl, 180g) NEW

COMUS, To Keep From Crying (Their 1974 2nd LP, Blue Vinyl) NEW
DARK, Dark Round The Edges (Deluxe Akarma, 180g) NEW

BRIAN DAVISON, Brian Davison's Every Which Way (1970 Rarity)NEW

JOHN DUMMER BAND, The Lost 1973 Album (DOL 180g) NEW
FAT MATTRESS, Fat Mattress (+ 4 Bonus Tracks,

Fold-out Poster Cvr) NEW
FAT MATTRESS, Fat Mattress |! (+ 2 Bonus Tracks) NEW
FEVERTREE, For Sale (Brown Vinyl) NEW
FLIES, The Complete Collection 1965-1968 (Acme 180g) NEW
GENTLE GIANT, Octopus (from 1972, Tapestry 180g) NEW
DAVY GRAHAM*, Goddington Boundary (ACME 180g) NEW
HEAVY JELLY, Heavy Jelly (from 1970, DOL 180g) NEW
HERON, Heron (Rare Late 60s Folk / Rock) NEW
LINDA HOYLE, Pieces Of Me (Repertoire 180g) NEW
IRON BUTTERFLY, Live At The Galaxy 1967 NEW
ISOLATION, Isolation (1973 Private Press Rarity

+ DVD, Seelie Court) NEW
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so if you want it, hurry!
BARNEY JAMES with WARHORSE, Konee, The Second Coming

(75 Unreleased 1- Sided Rarity, Seelie Court) NEW
JASON CREST, A Place In The Sun (feat. their Classic 60s 7",

Guerssen) NEW
JETHRO TULL, A New Day Yesterday

(Rare & Unreleased from 1968/69) NEW
JUDAS PRIEST, Sad Wings Of Destiny

(From 1976, Repertoire 180g) NEW
JUDD, Judd (from 1970) NEW
JULY, July (Rare 1968 Psych Classic, Music On Vinyl 180g) NEW
KING CRIMSON, In The Court Of The Crimson King

(Panegyric 200g) NEW
LEAFHPOUND, Growers Of Mushrooms (Repertoire 180g) NEW
LITTLE BIG HORN, Little Big Horn (Dbl. From 1971,

incl. LP of Bonus / Unreleased trks, 2LP) NEW
MAGNA CARTA, Tomorrow Never Comes: The Anthology
(2LP Repertoire 2 x 180g) NEW
McDONALD & GILES, McDonald & Giles (180g Pink Vinyl) NEW
MIGHTY BABY, Mighty Baby (from 1969) NEW
MOODY BLUES, Magnicificent Moodys (+ 6 Bonus Tracks) NEW
MOTIFFE, Motiffe (1973 Super Rarity, Seelie Court) NEW
NATIONAL FLAG, Thank You And Goodnight (1975 Rarity) NEW
NEKTAR, Sounds Like This (1973 2LP Set) NEW
PALADIN, Charge (180g Silver Vinyl) NEW
PICADILLY LINE, The Huge World Of Emily Small NEW
RAW MATERIAL, Time 15,... (Deluxe Akarma 180g) NEW
BRIDGET ST. JOHN*, Ask Me No Questions NEW
SALAMANDER, The Ten Commandments

(In Orig. Poster Sleeve, Guerssen 180g) NEW
SAM APPLE PIE, Sam Apple Pie (from 1969) NEW
JUDEE SILL*, Judee Sill (from 1972, Music On Vinyl 180g) NEW
SPOOKY TOOTH, It's All About (+ 3 Bonus Tracks) NEW
SPRING, Spring (2LP, 1971 Super Rarity in Orig Fold out Cvr,

Deluxe Akarma, 2 x 180g) NEW
STEAMHAMMERS*, Speech (Their 4th and Final LP,

Repertoire 180g) NEW
TEAR GAS, Piggy Go Better (from 1970) NEW
TRAFFIC, Mr Fantasy (+ 5 Bonus Tracks, 180g) NEW
WRITING ON THE WALL, The Power Of The Picts + 12" EP

(2 x 180g) NEW
ZOMBIES*, Begin Here (Repertoire 180g) NEW

LOTS MORE Send 2 x First Class Stamps for full Catalogue.
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f" DAVID BOWIE, Knock On Wood (40th Picture disc) M
T” DAVID BOWIE, Diamond Dogs (40th Picture disc) M
T" BLONDIE, French Kissing (PS, Rare Spanish Promo) M/M
LP DAVID BOWIE, Bowie Now (Ltd. Ed. White vinyl) M/M
2LP DAVID BOWIE, On My TVC15 (2 x Pic discs, Ltd. Ed.) M/M

LP DAVID BOWIE, Low (Rare Pic disc) M
LP DAVID BOWIE, Sound + Vision

(Legendary broadcast, Grey vinyl) M/M
LP BLONDIE, Parallel Lines (Japanese Import) M/M
LP BLONDIE, Eat To The Beat (Japanese Import) M/M
LP U2, Zooropa (Rare Ltd. Edition White vinyl) M/M
ІР U2, October (Cream vinyl + Booklet, Ltd. Ed.) M/M
2LP U2, Songs Of Experience (Ltd. Ed. Blue vinyl) M/M
4x10" U2, Joshua Tree Singles Pack (Fanclub only) M/M

12" U2, Fire EP (Ltd. Ed. Pic disc) M

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HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 5UN. Tel: 07778 425787.

Email: infor@tiscali.co.uk

P&P: EPs £1.80 LPs: £4.00. Other items on request.

Graded Sleeve / Record.

45 BETTY EVERETT, Getting Mighty Crowded (Fontana TF520) EX
EP CHUCK BERRY & BO DIDDLEY, Chuck & Bo, Vol. 3

(Pye NEP44013) EX/EX
EP CHUCK BERRY, Same (Pye МЕР44011) EX/EX
EP BIG 4, Orlons, Dovells etc. (Cameo Parkway) EX/EX
EP JAMES BROWN, I'll Go Crazy (Pye NEP44068) EX/EX
EP BO DIDDLEY, The Story Of (Pye NEP44019) EX/EX
EP BIG DEE IRWIN & LITTLE EVA, Swinging On A Star

(Colpix 301) EX/EX

EP RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO, A Hard Day’s Night (Chess 6019) EX/EX

EP BOBBY RYDELL, Sway (Cameo Parkway 551) EX/EX
EP SHANGRI-LAS, Same (Rare Bird 40002) EX/EX
EP SANDIE SHAW, Same (French Pye GX 07-207) EX/EX
EP MARK WYNTER, Wynter (Pye NEP24185) EX/EX
LP ARGENT, Counter Points, RCA RS 1020) EX/EX
LP BLIND FAITH, Same (RSO 2394 142, Gatefold sleeve) EX/EX

ІР BYRDS, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (CBS 63353, Mono) VG/EX
LP CARAVAN, In The Land Of Grey And Pink

(Deram Red/White label) EX/EX
LP DOORS, Strange Days (Elektra 42016, Butterfly label) EX/EX
LP GENTLE GIANT, The Power & The Glory

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(WWAO10 Round corners + ins) EX/EX
LP GUNS 'N' ROSES, Appetite For Destruction

(Geffen WX125, Robot cvr) EX/EX
LP ROY HARPER, Lifemask (Harvest 808, Door sleeve) EX/EX
LP CAROLYN HESTER, “That’s My Song” (Dot 3604,) EX/EX
LP JACKSON HEIGHTS, King Progress

(Charisma Scroll CAS 1018) EX/EX

LP JETHRO TULL, Heavy Horses (Chrysalis 1175 + inner) EX/EX
BOX JETHRO TULL, 20 Years Of (51Р + Booklet, Box Set) AIIEX
LP DAVY JONES, Same (Pye NPL 18178) EX/EX

LP MANFRED MANN. Up The Junction (Fontana 6852005 )EX/EX

LP PENTANGLE, Cruel Sister (Transatlantic TRA 228) EX/EX
LP ROLLING STONES, Some Girls (Uncensored inner) EX/EX
ІР BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE, It's My Way (Fontana TFL 6040) EX/EX

LP CRISPIAN ST. PETERS, Simply (Square 102) EX/EX
LP JEREMY TAYLOR, His Songs (Fontana STL 5475) EX/EX
LP ТЕМ YEARS AFTER, Watt (Deram 18050

+ Poster, Gatefold) EX/EX
LP RICHARD THOMPSON, Henry The Human Fly

(Island IRSP 20) EX/EX
LP TROGGS, Contrasts (DJML 009) EX/EX
ІР THE WHO, Live At Leeds (Track 2406001,

Red cvr A/3 matrix + all Inserts) AIIEX
LP THE WHO, Odds & Sods (Track ACB254 die

cut sleeve + inner) EX/EX
ІР MARTY WILDE, The Versatile Mr Wilde

(Philips BBL7385, Mono) EX/EX

LP TONY JOE WHITE, Home Made Ice Cream (WB K46229)EX/EX

HOLLY DEMOS / RGM /
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EDINGTON, SOMERSET, TA7 9JP. Tel: 01278 722811.
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BUDDY HOLLY, True Love Ways

(Blue Coral one-sided demo 105869) VG
BUDDY HOLLY, Peggy Sue Got Married

(Blue Coral one-sided demo 107694, пс) EX
BUDDY HOLLY, Early In The Morning

(Blue Coral one-sided demo 105182) M

BUDDY HOLLY, Heartbeat (Blue Coral one-sided demo 105511) EX
BUDDY HOLLY, Well... Alright (Blue Coral one-sided

demo 104739) M
BUDDY HOLLY, Mailman Bring Me No More Blues

(Blue Coral 2-sided demo, 072445) VG
EDDIE COCHRAN, Sweetie Pie (London 9196.) M
EDDIE COCHRAN, Stockings and Shoes (London 9467) EX
EDDIE COCHRAN, Hallelujah | Love Her So (London 9022) VG
EDDIE COCHRAN, Drive-In Show (Liberty 10168) M
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Madness

Henley Leander Club
15/9/21

Playing the Henley Festival for
5,000 bow-tied and posh-
frocked champagne-quaffers,
the nutty boys were on a giant
floating stage for

a gloriously OTT coming
together of cultures. Mike
Barson wore something close
to a straw boater for the
sunset occasion, the six-piece
gang augmented by

a three-piece horn section.
They roared through
everything from One Step
Beyond to a Night Boat To
Cairo finale, a breathless set
delivered with barrow-boy
charm. "Loosen them bow-
ties," ordered Suggs as the
crowd left the real world
behind to jiggle to Му Girl,
The Prince, Driving In My Car
and more, even Joining

a Wings Of A Dove singalong.
There wasn't a dry eye for Our
House as Suggs led Barson's
diminutive mum, Pat, to the
front for a wave, recounting
how the early band were told
to quieten down in her spare
bedroom! Nick Dalton

New Order
Manchester

Heaton Park

10/9/21

Bernard Sumner and co
played a classic set, filled
with admirable energy.
Regret opened an
impeccable 19-track offering,
the 35,000 gathered
drowning Bernard Sumner's
vocals on the memorable
chorus, with the players
faultless. The band then
treated us to their latest
track, Be A Rebel, before
Gillian Gilbert's iconic synth
echoed through the park
during Bizarre Love Iriangle.
It wasn’t long before Sumner
ditched his guitar and joined
in with the crowd, dancing
along, before Blue Monday
had everyone chanting. Тһе
encore took a different turn,
like a throwback to The
Hacienda, with three Joy
Division tracks. lan Curtis'
face was projected during an
emotional Love Will Tear Us
Apart, which saw the crowd
singing their hearts out to
the emotive coda. A grand
homecoming party.

Brisid Harrison-Draper

Acid Reign

Milton Keynes

Craufurd Arms

10/9/21

Reminiscent of Anthrax, Acid
Reign can be goofy, but also
deal in serious topics, as
per opener, The New Low.
Goddess followed, and horns

132 Record Collector

were held aloft, beer spilt,

and mayhem erupted. With
guitarist Paul Chanter laid low
by Covid, the four-piece
changed their setlist, with
tracks from 1989's The Fear
featuring prominently, notably
Life In Forms. Vocalist “H”, the
Peter Pan of thrash, was
hyperactive, covering every
inch of the stage on an
amphetamine-fuelled run-
through of Blondie's Hanging
On Ihe Telephone, while
during Blind Aggression, H
disappeared to the bar, before
returning with a tray of drinks
for the band. Two from latest
LP The Age Of Entitlement
were served as encores, and
final salvo, Ripped Apart, was a
musical tornado. Peter Dennis

Hanwell Hootie

London Hanwell Meadow
18/9/21

While free gigs were as of old
in pubs round Hanwell/Ealing,
the main event focused on the
Meadow, with two Marquee
stages hosting afternoon/
evening sessions. Each
featured five mainly up-and-
coming bands, highlights of

a sunny early show including

a 10-song set from local
musician, The Men They
Couldn't Hang's Phil Odgers.
With Ray Thomas-like vocals
and Ralph McTell-style
acoustic guitar/ukulele, he was
sporadically accompanied by
The Professionals’ Tom
spencer. The breezy
50-minute set ranged from a
skiffley The Story to
strumathon Ihe Drinkers,
raising spirits all round. Тһе
female-fronted quintet,
salvation Jane, knocked it out
of the park with a six-song,
half-hour blitz of proggy indie-
rock, Violent Silence bringing
to mind Cooper Temple Clause
by way of Rews/The Subways
(who they've supported), while
new song, Diadem, bodes well
for a February album.

Evening highlights included
nine songs from Bedside
Manners, relishing the
opportunity to dispense Oasis-
cum-Charlatans tunes, such
as a discordantly thrashing
Live By Their Rules and shouty
My People.

A similar-length,
40-minute burst of The
Elephant Trees saw the
female-fronted trio mix indie-
prog with frenetically-sung rap
(think epic Coldplay with a
metal Lindy Layton), notably
on Uncomfortable. Avalanche
Party had Cure fans beaming,
and St Agnes glamorously
concluded proceedings.

Tim Jones

Suggs and со
walk on water

John Cooper Clarke
London Wimbledon
Common

18/9/21

As part of the Sunset Festival,
John Cooper Clarke
entertained a sold-out tent
with poems and readings.
Bookended by performances
of The Luckiest Guy Alive and
| Want To Be Yours, he read
passages from his new
autobiography. In this, he was
aided and abetted by his road
manager, Johnny Green, who
used to perform the same
function for The Clash. Facing
each other in armchairs, they
made an unlikely but effective
double-act. Clarke perched
reading glasses in front of his
omnipresent Raybans, and
the set had a spontaneous
quality, aided by questions
from the audience. These
prompted ruminations on why
you should never buy trousers
from a heterosexual, while
cultural icons abounded:
Nico, Bob Dylan, Keith
Richards, Bernard Manning.
Clarke explained gleefully how
his adoption by The Arctic
Monkeys has exposed him to
a much younger audience.
The vitality of this show
suggests he won't be hanging
up his Chelsea boots any time
soon. Simon Wright

Damon Albarn
London Globe Theatre
20/9/21

A harvest moon shrouded in
mist above the replica open-
air Shakespearean theatre
blended beautifully with
the rarefied atmospherics
generated on the stage
below. Its mysterious
presence presided over
a sprawling solo career
retrospective by Blur's
Damon Albarn and friends.
With the show being
beamed live to 67 countries,
the onstage Joyful chemistry
between core band members
and guest musicians,

including Seckou Keita on
the Кога and countertenor
Christopher Robson, plus

a string quartet, contrasted
with the mostly mournful,
dub-heavy songs on display.
However, a rousing rendition
of Blur's This Is A Low lifted
the sometimes sombre
songcraft on show. Then, as if
by ancient alchemical magic,
the mist drifted away and the
magnificent moon appeared
during new song, Polaris,

to the wonderment of
everyone. Paul Davies

Slam Dunk

Hatfield Park

2/9/21.

Covid travel restrictions meant
that this year's premier punk
party was, with a few
exceptions, a showcase for
the best British talent, Slam
Dunk's lineup covering
everything from pop-punk to
metalcore. Blood Youth were
indicative of the fertile UK
scene and set the bar
impossibly high; sonic
terrorists Hacktivist fused
grime with metal in

a volatile mixture, while
Sheffield bruisers Malevolence
initiated a huge circle pit.
Florida's Mayday Parade made
a welcome appearance with
their bittersweet sound, their
magnetic force pulling people
in from all corners of the Park.
A flowing 40-minute set sated
the hunger before While She
Sleeps’ opener, Sleeps
society, did a grand job firing
up the capacity crowd. Anti-
Social increased the insanity
and had all but the mute
singing along. WSS were

on top form, playing with

a confidence that only comes
from a band at the top of their
game. Subsequently, there
was little time wasted on
stage banter, just rapid-fire
tracks such as Four Walls and
Silence Speaks, delivered with
machine-like precision. The
sonic shifts of Nervous were

replicated well and set things
up nicely for punishing closer,
systematic. Peter Dennis

Nine Below Zero

Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms
2/10/21

British R&B fixtures Dennis
Greaves (guitar/vocals) and
Mark Feltham (stellar harp),
hit the stage backed by

a youthful band including
Dennis' son, Sonny Greaves,
behind the kit. A strange,
mixed set, saw less

a revisiting of the heady days
of Don't Point Your Finger,
and more new material
suggesting a Byrds-type vibe.
There were also a few Weller-
induced mod revival tunes.
Thankfully, we were gifted
Homework, One Way Street,
Don't Point Your Finger,

| Can't Help Myself and Ridin'
On The L+N, Feltham’s intro
on harmonica rocking the
house, as on the encore of
Three Times Enough. A lot of
the power and attitude of the
old days have gone, but they
entertained with a strong set
for many happy punters.

Tim Keppie

Mark Morriss

Winchester Railway Inn
1/10/21.

Solo Mark Morriss shows
throw їп a stand-up comedy
act, as well as a set of songs.
He riffs on alleged rivalry
between lead singers of
major bands, who make
pocket money by playing the
Small gig circuit (he pretends
to be incensed that tickets
for James Walsh of Starsailor
cost a fiver more than his).
The other joke 15 how his
audience largely ignores his
solo songs, as they wait for
The Bluetones' hits. His
good-natured banter got the
audience on-side, though,
and they listened attentively
to all the material. He

Photo (Madness): Charlotte Snowden

Photo (The Rolling Stones): Mark Mawston

wouldn t claim to be a
virtuoso guitarist, but he's a
natural performer, with
strong, characterful Britpop-
style vocals. Striking songs
included Consuela, Madeline,
(a collaboration with The
Seahorses' Chris Helme) and
the Covid-pertinent I'm Sick,
while, from Ihe Bluetones
catalogue, came Cut Some
Rug and, naturally, Slight
Return - classic singalongs,
and superb, understated
entertainment. Oliver Gray

Louisa Revolta

Eastleign Concorde
6/10/21

Jazz songstress Louisa
Revolta has been described
as a creative whirlwind and,
for A Celebration Of Ella
Fitzgerald, she took the stage
by storm, raising the rafters
with a marathon session of
sensational scat singing —

a trademark of the US

queen of jazz. Louisa hit the
ground running with A Fine
Romance, a classic from
Ella’s treasure trove of hits,
recorded with another jazz
great, Louis Armstrong, ІП
1957. Superbly accompanied
by Steve Christie (piano),
Peter Maxfield (double-bass)
and Joe Pickering (drums),
Louisa stylishly delivered

two sets of Ella magic.

A co-founder of Hampshire-
based vocal harmony group,
The Spitfire Sisters, she also
reprised The Andrews Sisters'
foot-tapper, Don't Fence Me
In, while other Ella epics
included Everytime We Say
Goodbye, 'S Wonderful and
Mr Paganini, the First Lady Of
Song's signature tune.
Duncan Eaton

The Rolling Stones
St Louis Dome, US
26/9/21

After the recent death of

a bandmate and friend, the
opening night of their US tour
saw the Stones dispel any
doubts when a series of
screens paid homage to
Charlie Watts, before Mick
burst onstage, with Keith and
Ronnie by his side. Fans
roared with joy at seeing that
haughty, lined visage howl
out the lyrics to Street-
fighting Man and It's Only
Rock'N'Roll, the classic scowl
intact. 19th Nervous
Breakdown was a perfectly
detonated time capsule,
before a roiling Midnight
Rambler, Keef soloing during
Slipping Away, and Mick
breaking his mask during
band introductions,
announcing another
drummer’s name in

place of Charlie.

New guy Steve Jordan,
rose to the occasion with
purpose and power, his
thunderous bass drum on

Paint It Black giving the song
an apocalyptic-horseman
urgency, while he offered

a supple throb to new song,
The Specials-like Living In

A Ghost Town. He, Keith,
Ronnie and Daryl Jones
circled with grins on Jumpin’
Jack Flash, and they encored
with Satisfaction, a furious
collage that proves that,
pandemic or no, the Stones
keep on rolling. Steohen Conn

William The
Conqueror

Southampton

Joiners Arms

4/10/21

The eager audience was
treated to an outstanding
Support experience, as the
beautiful, wistful harmonies
of Norwegian trio Casilian
washed over them. | predict
they'll be signed by Bella
Union and gracing major
festivals next summer.
Equally poised for a major
breakthrough is William

The Conqueror. With his
statuesque frame, shaggy
locks and trucker hat, Киат
Joseph looks like a grunge-
rocker, but the music that
emerges from him is an
irresistible, loping groove, only
made possible by the skill and
instinctive feel of a mighty
rhythm section in Harry
Harding and Naomi Holmes.
The half-spoken vocals and
trio format mean that the
band has a truly unmistakable
identity, more akin to The
Band or Little Feat than any
current styles. Playing virtually
all their latest, Maverick
Thinker, to a passionate,
completely involved gathering,
they laid down a marker for a
very bright future. Oliver Gray

The Stacey Brothers
London Ronnie Scott's
29/9/21

The Stacey Brothers’ Big
Band Steely Dan Project:
The Royal Scammers was
an artistic tribute in the best
sense: a triumphant creative
interpretation of Walter
Becker and Donald Fagen's
glorious songbook, delivered
by an impeccable 14-piece
band. These songs carry
deep musical footprints, so,
kicking off the set with Peg
demonstrated both style and
ambition. The assured delivery
was extraordinary, including
lead guitarist Paul Stacey's
dazzling take on the song's
historic solo. On we went,
with classics such as Babylon
Sisters (Showcasing Jeremy
Stacey’s superb drumming),
Kid Charlemagne, Deacon
Blues, and a thunderously
funky Time Out Of Mind.
Interestingly, there were five
selections from Gaucho,
including the title track,

and a resplendent Glamour

Profession, allowing the entire
band to shine, both
instrumentally and vocally. Aja
ended the set spectacularly,
with the joyous carnival of

My Old School following as
encore. Bands like this grace
Ronnie Scott’s renowned
stage and, to echo the late
lan MacDonald: Steely

Dan are good for you.

Steve Burniston

Caravan

Basingstoke Haymarket
6/10/21

Canterbury survivors Caravan,
are (ahem) back on the
road... And how! Powered by
a new rhythm-section pairing
of animated drummer Mark
Walker, and Jeff Lynne's
bassist of choice, Lee
Pomeroy, they commenced
their comeback tour in no little
Style. All the classic dynamics
of their 705 heyday were
present and correct, multi-
talented Geoff Richardson
leading the way on viola, flute,
guitar and, amazingly, electric
spoons. And with prog epics
For Richard and Nine Feet
Underground as first- and
second-set closers, a standing
ovation was guaranteed.
Original guitarist Pye Hastings’
voice, never the strongest, Is
now a smoky croak. But
having bravely revived the
seldom-performed Winter
Wine, he stood proudly
centre-stage, peering owlishly
through specs as the show
went on around him.

A handful of newer songs
neither added nor detracted,
but if they can keep Pomeroy
in tow, Caravan can consider
their future prospects rosy...
Or maybe grey and pink.
Michael Heatley

Fontaines DC

Manchester Academy
6/10/21

Kicking off a three-night
residency, Dublin’s finest
brought their anarchic energy
for a quintessential post-punk
gig. Strolling on without
introduction, they erupted into
A Lucid Dream. Frontman
Grian Chatten bobbed from
Side to side while preaching to
the converted, who shouted
back lyrics almost as loudly as
the band. For a collective
whose music celebrates the
poetic melancholy of life,
FDC’s liveliness is admirable.
The entrancing Televised Mind,
with its raucous riffs and
chorus, spread around the
room, while flashing lights drew
the crowd into a bouncing
frenzy. Too Real was done with
large bouncing balls thrown out
to the crowd and Boys In The
Better Land saw Chatten
pouring out the lyrics with
gusto. A gig we'll be speaking
about for years to come.
Slainte! Brigid Harrison-Draper

The Rolling
Stones: the
show goes on

Genesis

Liverpool M&S Arena
4/10/21

Genesis rolled back the years
with a set that included
ecstatically received songs
from their /Os beginnings, and
a potted history of their prog-
to-pop musical journey, on
this poignant, and sadly since
shortened, swansong tour. It
was a revelation to hear
Afterglow in its entirety, along
with extended highlights of
Cinema Show, Firth Of Fifth,
and the intro to Dancing With
The Moonlit Knight. There was
also an interesting, acoustic
The Lamb Lies Down On
Broadway, as the trio finally
reclaimed some of the
deepest treasures of their
illustrious past. Entering the
stage to a standing ovation,
opener Behind The Lines
revealed a seated Phil Collins
in strong voice on Turn It On
Again, as well as Mama and
Land Of Confusion, with Home
By The Sea the standout of
the later-years tracks.

A sensational lightshow

and wistful films backed up
the onstage top-grade
musicianship. Final song
Carpet Crawlers elicited

a singalong from the sold-out
throng that echoed down the
years and off into the night.
Paul Davies

Leaf Hound
London Twickenham
Eel Pie Club

9/9/21
Leaf Hound's legendary

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REVIEWS

ID

Growers Of Mushroom
celebrated its 50th
anniversary this year. A four-
figure-priced cult classic,
only vocalist Peter French
remains from the original
band, but with a revamped
line-up, Leaf Hound tested
out their new material for the
first time.

After opening with the
debut's Sad Road To The
Sea, the first half largely
featured cuts from 20077
Unleashed, including the
countrified Nickels And
Dimes and absorbing Man
With The Moon In Him,
wherein new guitarist Тот
Smith shone brightly.
Bassist Pete Herbert had
a spring in his step during
Overtime, before three new
songs were rolled out, Burn
The House Down being an
all-out belter, Hold Back The
Night displaying a boogie
groove, and Cinderella
proving a twinkling reworking
of a track that French
originally worked on with
Carmine Appice. On this
evidence, the next album
can't come soon
enough. Growers Of
Mushroom, featuring
a neat drum workout from
Pete's son, Dominic,
and the infectious riff
of Freelance Fiend, were
stark reminders why the
debut Decca LP is such

a golden egg. Mark Taylor

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Tom Jones December (5)
Glasgow SSE Hydro (6) Manchester
AO Arena (8) Birmingham Utilita
Arena (9) London Greenwich О»

New Model Army November
(24) Glasgow Garage (26-27)
Nottingham Rock City December
(4-5) London Camden Roundhouse
March 2022 (16) Chester Live
Rooms (17) Lincoln Engine Shed
(18) Holmfirth Picturedrome

19) Edinburgh La Belle Angele

) Coventry HMV Empire

) Bury St Edmunds Apex

) Port Talbot Princess Theatre

) Frome Cheese & Grain

) Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
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Roy Wood November (13)
Leamington Spa Assembly (23)
Northampton Royal & Derngate (2 7)
Porthcawl Grand Pavilion December
(2) Crewe Lyceum (7) Cheltenham
Town Hall (16) Southend-On-

Sea Palace

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still on, postponed or cancelled

Anthrax September 2022 (27)
Birmingham O, Academy (29)
Manchester Academy (30) Glasgow
О„ Academy October (1) Newcastle
O» City Hall (3) Leeds O5 Academy
(4) Nottingham Rock City (6) Bristol
O, Academy (8) London Brixton

O» Academy

The Black Crowes
RESCHEDULED September 2022
(24) Manchester О- Apollo (26-27)
London Brixton O5 Academy

ex-Fleetwood Mac Lindsey
Buckingham May 2022
(19) Glasgow SEC Armadillo (21)
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (22)
London Palladium

Belinda Carlisle February
2023 (3) Birmingham Symphony
Hall (4) Cardiff St David's Hall (6)
Portsmouth Guildhall (8) Oxford New
Theatre (10) London Palladium (11)
Nottingham RCH (13) Southend
Cliffs Pavilion (15) Exeter Great Hall
(1/) Manchester Academy (18)
Edinburgh Usher Hall (20) York
Barbican (21) Guildford G Live

(23) Gateshead Sage (24)
Sheffield City Hall (25) Cambridge
Corn Exchange

George Clinton &
Parliament-Funkadelic

May 2022 (22) Nottingham Rock
City (23) London Kentish Town O»
Forum (24) Glasgow О, Academy
(26) Bristol O5 Academy (27)
Manchester Albert Hall (28) Margate
Dreamland (29) Scarborough Open
Air Theatre

Dream Theater April 2022 (20)
Belfast SSE Arena (21) Newcastle
Utilita Arena (23) London Wembley
SSE Arena

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Gig Guide

Billie Eilish June 2022 (3)
Belfast SSE Arena (7-8) Manchester
AO Arena (10-12,16) London
Greenwich O» (14) Glasgow SSE
Hydro (15) Birmingham Utilita Arena

Foo Fighters June 2022 (25)
Manchester Emirates Old Trafford
(27) Birmingham Villa Park (30,
July 2) London Stadium

Feeder April 2022 (23) Bexhill

De La Warr Pavilion (24) Oxford

O, Academy (26) Southampton
Guildhall (27) Bristol O, Academy
(29) Manchester O5 Academy (30)
Glasgow Barrowlands May (2)
Newcastle University (3) Nottingham
Rock City (5) Birmingham O» Institute
(6) London Brixton O, Academy

HAIM July 2022 (13) Leeds
Millennium Square (14) Glasgow
SSE Hydro (16) Manchester О»
Victoria Warehouse (19) Nottingham
Motorpoint Arena (20) Cardiff
Motorpoint Arena (21) London
Greenwich О»

Kings Of Leon June 2022 (13)
Birmingham Resorts World Arena (14)
Leeds First Direct Arena (28) Glasgow
SSE Hydro (29) Newcastle Utilita
Arena July (1) London Greenwich О»
(b) Manchester AO Arena

Lorde May 2022 (25) Leeds O»
Academy (26) Edinburgh Usher
Hall (28) Manchester O» Victoria
Warehouse (30) Birmingham O»
Academy June (1-3) London
Camden Roundhouse

James Morrison March 2022
(10) Southend Cliffs Pavilion (11)
loswich Regent (12) Cardiff St David's
Hall (14) Leicester De Montfort

Hall (15) Oxford New Theatre (1 7)
Bournemouth Pavilion (18) Folkestone
Leas Cliff Hall (19) Stoke Hanley
Victoria Hall (21) Manchester
Bridgewater Hall (22) Bath Forum
(25) Stockton Globe (26) Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall (28) Cambridge
Corn Exchange (29) Birmingham
Symphony Hall (30) Nottingham
RCH April (1) Sheffield City Hall

(2) Newcastle O, City Hall

(4) Brighton Dome (6) London
Palladium (8) Edinburgh Usher Hall
(О) Aberdeen Music На!

(10) Glasgow RCH

Ozric Tentacles December
(10) Tunbridge Wells Forum

(11) Ramsgate Music Hall (17)
Glastonbury King Arthur February
2022 (10) Preston Ferret (14)
Deal Lighthouse (15) Portsmouth
Wedgewood Rooms (18)
Edinburgh Bannerman's

Pendragon March 2022 (19)
Great Yarmouth HRH Prog XII

April (2) Dunfermline Prog In The
Park 2.0 (3) St Helens Citadel (4)
Bilston Robin 2 (5) Fletching Trading
Boundaries (6) Oundle Victoria Hall
(7) Sheffield Corporation (8) London
229 (9) Chepstow Winter’s End (10)
Exeter Phoenix

TOUR DU JOUR

|! This month:

DON McLEAN

How long will you prepare

for the tour?

| don't prepare for tours. | just
change songs every night to keep
things different.

Do you have any pre-/post-
show routines?

Yes. | soundcheck and then go to
my dressing room to change the
strings on my guitar. Then we have
dinner — usually Indian food. | love
tandoori chicken. Then | turn off the
lights and take a nap for an hour,
then | do the show.

Will you be playing any songs
that you rarely perform?

l'Il be playing a few songs from my
upcoming album, and the odd song
here and there.

Are there any venues that you're
particularly looking forward to?
All of them, but especially

London Palladium.

Will you check out your

tour supports?

| always like to see what they're
doing and | like to wish them well.
Will there be any unusual
merchandise on sale?

A 96-page bookazine story of my life

and the creation of the song,
American Pie. It's not available
outside the US.

Will you be recording any shows
for CD or DVD?

Quite possibly.

Do you collect bootlegs yourself?

| love soundboard mixes of live
shows. | like all the mistakes and
the feel of it being made in person,
not by a machine. | have lots of live
shows at home in Maine.

Do you go to shows at all?

The last concert was when my girl-

friend took me to a package show in

Maine of Blues Traveler, The

Sigrid March 2022 (13)
Manchester O^ Apollo (14) Edinburgh
Usher Hall (16) London Wembley SSE
Arena

Sea Power April 2022 (12)
Southampton 1865 (13) Birmingham
O» Institute (14) London Camden
Roundhouse (19) Bristol O, Academy
(21) Sheffield Leadmill (22) Glasgow
St Luke's (2:3) Manchester Albert Hall

Ed Sheeran May 2022 (12)
Belfast Boucher Road Playing Fields
(26-27) Cardiff Principality Stadium
June (3-4) Sunderland Stadium

Of Light (10-11) Manchester
Etihad Stadium (16-17) Glasgow
Hampden Park (29-30) London
Wembley Stadium

Devin Townsend April 2022
(14) Glasgow O, Academy (17)
London Royal Albert Hall

The Wombats April 2022 (14)
Leeds First Direct Arena (15) London
Greenwich O, (16) Cardiff Motorpoint
Arena (18) Glasgow Barrowlands (22)
Liverpool Uni Mountford Hall May (26)
scarborough Open Air Theatre

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an American ‘hr!

Wallfowers, and G Love & Special
sauce. | liked everyone. Jakob Dylan
was tremendous and G Love were
incredible. One of the best shows
that I’ve ever seen.

Do you have any outstanding UK
tour memories?

The show at London’s Hyde Park in
1975 drew 100,000 people and is
memorable — fans were stripping!

Don McLean plays in September
2022 (11) Cardiff St David’s (13)
Ipswich Regent (14) Birmingham
Symphony Hall (16) Bath Forum
(17) Torquay Princess Theatre
(18) Bournemouth Pavilion (20)
Brighton Dome (21) Southend
Cliffs Pavilion (23) Manchester
Bridgewater Hall (24) Gateshead
Sage (25) Glasgow RCH (27)
Edinburgh Usher Hall (28) York
Barbican (30) Leicester De
Montfort Hall October (1)
Sheffield City Hall (2)

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

(4) London Palladium.

The Wailers February 2022
(25) Birmingham O» Institute (26)
Manchester O, Ritz (27) Glasgow
O, Academy (28) Leeds O5
Academy March (2) Nottingham
Rock City (3) Bournemouth О»
Academy (4) London Greenwich
IndigO^ (5) Cardiff Tramshed (6)
Bristol O, Academy

TOUR NEWS

London: Lee Fields, Islington
Assembly Hall, 4 March 2022.
JJ Wilde, King’s Cross
Lexington, 29 November. 8 The
Fugees, Greenwich O5. Ж Small
Faces’ Kenney Jones, 3
December; The Primitives, 30
Тоо!,

June 2022, Venue 229.
Greenwich O», 9-10 May 2022.
Lissie, King’s Cross Lafayette,

4 April 2022. E The Brand New
Heavies, Greenwich IndigQ5, 11
November. E The Charlatans,
Manchester Gorilla, 15
November.

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Across the Tracks — ‘On busiest corner of hippest city, open seven

days. Thousands of rarities in the shop that aren't on the net. All genres,

including classical and new CD promos, nothing mundane. Collections
bought.’ 110 Gloucester Road, Brighton BN1 4AF.

Tel: 01273 677906. edfrombrighton@tiscali.co.uk
www.acrossthetracksrecords.com

Alan’s Record & CD Shop — ‘Diggers paradise! Over 18,000 quality
used 7” /12" LPs/CDs. Specialising in Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Hip
Hop, Dance. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:30am, Wednesdays by
appointment only. Independent and stubbornly individual."

218 High Road, East Finchley, London N2 9AY. Tel: 0208 883
0234. alanrecordman@tiscali.co.uk

Ben's Collectors Records - 'Celebrating 26 years & still going strong
& organiser of the monthly Guildford Record Fair at the Guildhall.’

5 Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3QT. Tel: 01483 301165.
bendarnton@aol.com www.benscollectorsrecords.com

Casbah Records — Open every day from 10.30am to 6.00pm.

Come with me to the casbah where you'll find a fab selection of s/
hand/new vinyl, new CDs, DVDs, books and memorabilia. Most genres
catered for in south-east London's coolest shop! key areas: classic rock,
soul, punk and indie.’ 320-322 Creek Road, Greenwich, London
SE10 9SW. Tel: 0208858 1964.

tony.davis@ntlworld.com www.casbahrecords.co.uk

Collectors Record Centre, Guildford — ‘Retailers of rare records for
35 years. Our stocks exceed 300,000 45s, albums, CDs & DVDs. Mail
order or call in for a collecting experience' 89 F Woodbridge Road,
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4QD. Tel: 01483 568100

Cruisin’ Records — ‘Open Monday to Saturday 9am-6pm. Established
for over 25 years, we stock back catalogue CDs of all genres.
Specialising in 50s/60s, Rock'n'Roll and Prog & music and film DVDs.
We buy and sell vinyl, CDs & DVDs.' 132 High Street, Welling, Kent
DA16 1TJ. Tel: 0208 304 5853. john@cruisin-records.fsnet.co.uk

Electric Palace Records — 'Situated in the heart of Tenterden, our
store is designed around providing our customers with an engaging,
unique experience. We love great music and embrace everyone's
individual preferences.' 1 The Fairings, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6QU.
Tel: 07775562447 Email: eprtenterden(e gmail.com

Grammar School Records - We stock 25,000 LPs, including 8,000
soundtracks, 5,000 classical, 12,000 rock, pop, jazz, folk, blues,
country, easy, reggae, spoken, plus 20,000 45s, 1,000s of CDs, DVDs,
185, 8 tracks, dealer discounts.' The Old Grammar School, High
Street, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7JF. Tel: 01797 222752. sales@
backtrackrye.com, www.grammarschoolrecords.com

Helter Skelter Records - 'Quality second-hand records and CDs
bought & sold. Established іп 1994. Pay us a visit when in Chichester.’
44 The Hornet, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 7JG.

Tel: 01243 771744.

Merlin Records — РОР, ROCK, SOUL, BLUES, JAZZ, PROGRESSIVE,
REGGAE, PSYCHEDELIC. 857 Green Lanes N21 2RX.

Tel: 0208 364 2380.

Music Mania — 'Selling quality vinyl - Rare, new & used covering

all genres. Based in Worthing Town centre near Brighton. 21 West
Buildings, Worthing, BN11 3BS. Tel: 01903 203489.

mobile: 07912664576. email: help.musicmania(2 gmail.com

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Not Just A Record Shop - ‘Vintage vinyl store, all genres, large
stock of new and secondhand vinyl, CDs and DVDs from £1. We also
specialise in retro new and old items, new vinyl added most days, we
also buy! Open 7 days a week, Mon-Sat 10-6 and Sunday 10-5.'
141 Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 7NN.

Tel: 01323 730037. sumerLLO@hotmail.com

On Broadway — ‘Open Weds to Sunday 12-6. We stock R'n'B, RHR,
Blues, indie, power Pop, Soul, Northern, Garage, Funk, Reggae, Mod,
Latin & Boogaloo on 77/12” LP's at competitive prices. On vinyl &

CD thousands of 7” from 50's - 80's.' 161 Dawes Road, Fulham,
London SW6 ТЕЕ. Tel: 0207 385 6593.
vinylphonic@googlemail.com www.onbroadway161.com

Out On The Floor — ‘From ska to punk rock, reggae & soul, reissues &
originals. We buy & sell records — that's what we do.' 10 Inverness
Street, Camden, London NW1 7HJ. Tel: 0207 485
9958/07961315874. jajukebox@hotmail.com

Rarekind Records — 'New and 2nd hand record shop in Brighton
stocking Funk, Soul, Reggae, Jazz, Rock, Psych, Prog, World, Indy,
Hiphop, House, Pop and Techno. Open 7 days a week.’

104 Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ER.

Tel: 01273 818170.

music@rarekindrecords.co.uk www.rarekindrecords.co. uk

Raven Records - Specialise in PUNK/ ROCK/ INDI : Sell Vinyl, CDs’
DVDs and memorabilia. EST. 1988 Raven Retail LTD 74 Bromley
Road, Beckenham Kent BR3 5NP

Tel: 0208 658 0131. E-mail : sales@ravenretail.co.uk

FACEBOOK : Raven Retail LTD

Rock Bottom Records - 'Rock Bottom Records — 37 years old &
continuing to sell CDs/DVDs/LPs/Singles/Books and Mugs. Both new &
pre-owned. Open 10-5 Mon-Sun (except weds). Come down to see us!’
37-38 Harbour Street, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1А).

Tel: 01227 277438. mikehoareO6(caol.com

Russell's Records — 'New shop in Hampshire, come in and see us
and our rapidly increasing/changing stock of good quality used albums/
singles. Browse and enjoy our friendly service and free tea/coffee.’ Unit
12, The Hardies, High Street, Bordon, Hampshire GU35 OAY.

Tel: 01420 477221. watersidepixels@hotmail.co.uk
www.russells-records.co.uk

Second Scene - ‘A large selection of 1000s of vinyl LPs and singles
from all genres, psych, folk, jazz and beyond. New stock priced daily,
dealers please call for details of our excellent bulk purchase rates,
collections bought and sold, records always wanted. All genres and
budgets catered for.’ 125, Pinner Road, Oxhey, Watford,

Herts WD19 4EJ. Tel: 01923 800635.
julianleignsmith@hotmail.com www.secondscene.co.uk

Shaks' Stax of Wax - Stocking all genres of used LPs, 12", 7", CDs
and Tapes, which are updated daily. From the cheap and cheerful, to
the highly collectables, there's something for everyone. There's also

a small essential new- reissue section and a tailored ordering service
offered. Open Mon to Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm. 54 Old
London Road, Kingston Upon Thames,Surrey, KT2 6QF.

Tel: 0208 546 4422. info@shaksstaxofwax.com.

Sister Ray — ‘The last true all-genre record store in Soho. We have ап
unbeatable mix of CDs, vinyl and rarities. Music lovers from around the
world come to us for a great shopping experience.’

34-35 Berwick Street, London W1F 8RP.

Tel: 0207 734 3297. sales@sisterray.co.uk www.sisterray.co.uk

Slipped Discs — New and used vinyl, quality CDs and collectible
cassettes. Slipped Discs is located within Cobblestone Walk, which
houses a large collection of independent shops and a 16th Century Tea
House. Unit S 74 Cobblestone Walk, 74 High Street, Steyning,
BN44 SRD. Tel: 07852924601 / slippeddiscssteyning@gmail.com

Sounds Original — ‘Shop trading in Ealing, West London since 1983
(mail order since 1978). Based near South Ealing Underground station,
about half-way between Heathrow Airport and Central London on the
Piccadilly line, makes us an easy destination for any discerning collector
of 1950s and 605 original records and memorabilia. Open 11.00 to
5.00 Wed to Sat.’ 169, South Ealing Road, Ealing, London W5 4QP.
Tel: 0208 560 1155. soundsoriginal@aol.com www.soundsoriginal.co.uk

The Little Record Shop - Voted іп Тор 10 Guardian London record
shops. Selling Rock, Reggae, Jazz, African, 1000's LPs & 45s. Rare
records too. 95% Second hand. Open 1-6.30 Tues, Fri, Sat & Sun.
RECORDS BOUGHT. | don't sell on eBay or on the net, only from the
shop. 43 Tottenham Lane, London М8 9BD.

Tel: 07946412766. David@thelittlerecordshop.co.uk

The Record Shop Ltd — ‘We stock a large range of second-hand
& new vinyl plus guitars, CDs, DVDs, sheet music & accessories. We
buy vinyl & instruments (all types).' 37 Hill Avenue, Amersham,
Buckinghamshire HP6 5BX. Tel: 01494 433311.
therecordshop@btconnect.com www.therecordshopltd.co.uk

The Sound Machine – ‘Based in central Reading, one minute from
Reading station, we are the town's longest-established independent
collectors record shop. Wide range of new and secondhand vinyl and
CDs. Collections bought & sold.' 24 Harris Arcade, Station Rd,
Reading RG1 1DN. Tel: 0118 957 5075.
info@thesoundmachine.uk.com, www.thesoundmachine.uk.com

The Vinyl Frontier — 'Fastboume's oldest independent record shop,
selling new, used and rare/collectable vinyl, is run by former music
journalists, DJ's & band promoters Chris King and Rhydd Pugh.’

35 Grove Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 4TT.

Tel: 01323 410313. shop@recordsuk.co.uk,

www.recordsuk.co.uk

Time Machine Records — ‘Now in new larger shop offering an
internet-free vinyl experience with a big reputation for quality and rarity.
Rock and pop memorabilia also in stock. Open every Thursday, Friday
& Saturday from 10am to 5pm.’ Almshouse Arcade, 19 The Hornet,
Chichester, West Sussex P019 7JL.

Tel: 07900142718. harry boulter@hotmail.co.uk

Vinyl Collectors & Sellers - ‘Mail order since 1999, we have a
quality selection of vinyl & memorabilia within Beulah's large vintage
store, pop in for a browse, coffee & cake. Open 10-4 /days a week.’
Vinyl Collectors and Sellers, Unit 11, Cross Keys Arcade, Queen
Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 1EY Tel: 07872105502.
paul@vinylcollectorsandsellers.com

www. vinylcollectorsandsellers.co.uk

SOUTH WEST

Phoenix Sound - ‘The biggest range of new & used vinyl & CDs in
the South West, specialising in indie exclusives. We go big on RSD
with loads of the best titles.’ Unit 6, Pearl Assurance House, Queen
Street, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2AQ. Tel: 01626 334942 /
phoenixsound1 (gmail.com

Rapture — 'A huge selection of brand new CDs, DVDs and vinyl,
plus around 5,000 pre-owned titles. We are also proud stockists and
installers of Sonos streaming systems.' Unit 12 Woolgate Centre,
Witney 0Х28 6AP. Tel: 01993 700567.

wwWw.rapturewitney.co.uk

Red Rock Records – ‘Packed with records, CDs, DVDs, rare videos
and bargain vinyl room. Also posters, blu-ray etc. Just off Poole High
Street, by Coffee #1.’ 4, North Street, Poole BH15 1NX.

Tel: 01202 677793. wayneofafch@msn.com
www.amazon.co.uk/shops/redrockrecordspoole

Rocket Records — Newly opened Record Shop with 40 years of
collecting experience. Vinyl, Posters and Memorabilia. Wide range of
genres. Speciality sections include punk and metal. Vinyl collections
bought. Friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Open 10.30-6 Wed-Sat 884
Wimborne Rd. Moordown, Bouremouth, BH9 2DR
rocketrecords.co.uk - Tel: 01202 512762.

info@rocketrecord.co.uk

The Independent Record Shop – ‘An independent vinyl-collector's
dream with albums from 10p up to quality, sourced from UK and USA.’
7 Shurdington Road, Cheltenham Spa GL53 OJB.

Tel: 07831 372642. info@theindependentrecordshop.co.uk
www.theindependentrecordshop.co. uk

Wanted Records — 'Established September 2009 in central Bristol,
we buy sell and trade quality vinyl LPs and singles from Psych to
Reggae to Hip hop. We aim to pay the best prices and have the best
stock - No CDs, DVDs, or Chris De Burgh. Mon-Sat 9.30-5.'

Unit 1, St Nicholas Market, Bristol В51 1HQ. Tel: 0117 9290524.
infocowantedrecords.co.uk. www.wantedrecords.co.uk

Vinyl Vault — 'We stock rare collectable vinyl and CDs. Prog,
psych, folk, reggae, rock & рор.” 6 Cambray Place, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire GL50 US. Tel: 01242 227454.
vinvault@aol.com www.vinyl-vault.co.uk

EAST ANGLIA & THE MIDLANDS

Back To Mono — 'Open Mon-Sat, 10-5.30 NEW SHOP (20 years
experience) specializing in new and quality used vinyl, 60s, pysch,
garage, rock, soul, jazz, etc. Collections or one-off items purchased.’
18 Guildhall Street, Lincoln LN1 1TR. Tel: 01522 537988.
backtomonorecords(@yahoo.co.uk

www.backtomonorecords.com

,J DD Music Geek — ‘Independant music and pop culture shop
dealing in new and preloved vinyl, merch, books, cassettes, CDs,
magazines, comics, manga, games, gifts and much more!’

111 A, Bridge Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 9JO
Tel: 07584281556 / dave(@ddmusicgeek.co.uk
www.ddmusicgeek.co.uk

Just For The Record — ‘New independent record shop in Rugby town
centre. Large selection of quality used vinyl records, most genres.
Opening times: Tues - Sat 10am — 4pm, Sun & Monday closed,

no by appointment’ 3, Churchside Arcade, Little Church Street,
Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 SAW. Tel: 07983880300.

Mister Tees — 'A large selection of music for all tastes. Vinyl and CD,
specialists in Northem Soul and 60s, 705 plus merchandise including
badges, patches etc. (wholesale available). Established 30 years.'

65 Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire DY10 2EL.
Tel: 01562 515291. terry@mrteerecords.co.uk

Revolution Records - 'New and Collectable vinyl records across
many genres to suit all tastes.’ Ist Floor at Hunts Bookshop, 9
High Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV2 3BG. Tel 01788 551867 /
enquiry@huntsbookshop.com

Spiral Archive Records — ‘New and used records and CDs. Punk,
Indie, Rock, Alternative, Ska, Reggae, Soul, 50s,60s. Wed-Fri 11-4pm/
sat 11-5pm.' First Floor, 43 Hazelwood Road, Northampton. ММ1
1LG Tel: 07974885450. alex@spiralarchive.com
ebay-stores.ebay.co.uk/spiralarchiverecords

Vinyl Lounge - ‘North Notts independent record shop selling new and
second hand vinyl, plus CDs, accessories, Northern Soul 7”, RSD and
illy coffee/snacks. We buy your vinyl too.’ 4 Regent St, Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire NG18 1SS. Tel: 01623 427291.
vinyllounge.mansfield@gmail.com

WALES

Derricks Music - ‘Established 1956. We stock all types of music,
specialising in Rock, AOR, Metal, Prog and Indie. We are also the main
concert ticket outlet іп West Wales incorporating Ticketmaster.’

221 Oxford Street, Swansea, West Glamorgan SA1 3BQ.

Tel: 01792 654226. derricks@eurotelemail.net, www.derricksmusic.co.uk

Mudshark Records - 'Mudshark Records stocking new and thousands
of second hand vinyl and CD's. Most genres, rock, jazz, psych, punk,
reggae, disco, funk.' 128 High Street, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1NT.
Tel: 01248 3г2407/0788 7535945.

VOD Music — ‘Opened February 2009 by Record Fair Organisers
'VOD Music'. Quirky store with Vinyl, CDs, DVDs (most genres)
plus merchandise, sleeves and accessories. Open Wed, Fri, Sat,
10.30am-A4pm' 28 New Street, Mold, Flintshire,

North Wales CH7 1NZ. Tel: 07904688739.
enquiries@vodmusic.co.uk www.vodmusic.co.uk

NORTH

Astonishing Sounds — ‘Established 1986, selling LPs, CDs, 7/12”, EPs,
Rock, Punk, Reggae, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, Soul, Funk. Specialist in
dance, new and retro.’ 3 Hall Street, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 10).
Tel: 01282 455339. astonishing.sounds@googlemail.com

Better Daze - ‘Original vinyl-only record shop in the Yorkshire Dales.
Thousands of LPs and singles from 505 to 90s, with collections arriving
each week. Plus Juke Box hire and a selection of Juke Boxes for sale.’
Zetland Street, Northallerton, North Yorkshire DL6 INA.

Tel: 01609 781383/07852419937. better.daze@virgin.net
www.betterdaze.co.uk

Five Rise Records — ‘Located near the historic 5 rise locks in Bingley,
buying and selling new and used vinyl and serving fresh coffee.’ 30C Park
Road, Bingley, BD16 4JQ. Tel: 01274 512867

Web: www. fiveriserecords.co.uk

Grey ‘n’ Pink Collectors Records — ‘Established for 25 years we
specialise in vinyl and CDs: Rock ‘n’ Roll, 605, Blues, Folk, Reggae, Indie,
New Wave and Punk, to present day Rock and Pop.’

57 Brook Street, Chester CH1 3DZ. Tel: 0124 431 1921.
info@greynpinkrecords.com

Just The Sound - ‘Situated in the centre of Houghton-Le-Spring we stock
a wide range of vinyl records, CD's, music DVD's and memorabilia. Easily
accessible by car or bus.’ Unit 2 Lambton House, Newbottle Street,
Houghton le Spring DH4 4AR.

Tel: 0191 447 0136 just the sound@yahoo.co.uk

Kaleidoscope Records — 'Small independent record shop specializing
in vinyl — new and used.’ 30 Westfield Street, St Helens, Greater
Manchester WA10 1QF. Tel: 01744 454190.

greg@krecords.com www.krecords.com

Kingbee Records — 'Huge selection of second hand records and CDs.
Specialise in Soul, Reggae, Punk, Indie, Jazz, Blues, Sixties, Rock etc
on 7" and 12" “ІР, 519 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy,
Manchester M21 OUF. Tel: 0161 860 4762.
kingbee.records@yahoo.co.uk www.kingbeerecords.co.uk

Pear Music Shop — ‘CDs, Vinyl, DVDs, Cassettes, Musical instruments
and Accessories, LPs, 7”, 78's, 45s, 12", excellent ordering service.
30,000 pieces of vinyl and growing.’ 24 High Street, Knaresborough,
North Yorkshire HG5 OEQ. Tel: 0/903 /33/30 / 01423 864120.
pcornerwalker@googlemail.com

Replay Records — ‘Established in 1999. Stocking new and pre-owned
CD's and Records. Shop open - Tues-Sat 9.30-5.30.' 62-64 Freeman
Street, Grimsby DN32 ТАС. Tel: 01472 351125.
replay-records@btconnect.com

Reflex — ‘Classic indie high-street store, catering to all musical tastes,
fads & fashions. Fully geared up online with worldwide mail-order.
Specialist in new release vinyl on 7” and LP.’ 23 Nun Street, Newcastle
МЕ1 5AG Tel: 01912 603246. Alan@reflexcd.co.uk www.reflexcd.co.uk
KEI RPM Discs- А traditional record shop specialising in quality value
for money second hand vinyl. CDs and new vinyl also stocked. Home to
one of the UKs largest singles only on-line shops. 7A The Shop, Front
Street, Wingate, County Durham, TS28 БАА. Tel: 07711 450045 /
sales(orpmdiscs.co.uk

www.rpmdiscs.co.uk / www.45rpmdiscs.co.uk

Rubber Soul Records - ‘Run by a life-long Record Collector, selling
most genres in store. Sell your individual records, vinyl collections or pop
memorabilia quickly and easily. Ex cash paid. Please get in touch.’

19 Marsh Street South, Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent, ST1 1JA.

Tel: 07986 729197 Email: rubbersoulrecords@hotmail.co.uk

Skeleton Records — 'Established in 1971, we carry over 150,000 new
and used LPs, singles, CDs, tapes, videos and DVDs. All types of music
catered for — we buy your unwanted vinyl, CDs, DVDs.' 11 Oxton Road,
Birkenhead, Merseyside CH41 2QQ. Tel: 0151 6539 003.
skrecs@hotmail.co.uk

www.skeletonrecords.co.uk

Spinning Discs Sheffield — ‘An independent record shop where music
lovers can meet, relax, drink coffee and browse new, reissue and select
second hand vinyl in a friendly community environment.’

55 Chesterfield Road, Meersbrook, Sheffield S8 ORL.

Tel: 0/521 450111. contact@spinningdiscsheffield.co.uk
www.spinningdiscssheffield.co.uk

Vinyl Guru, Newcastle

READER SERVICES

Russell’s Records — Bordon

Tucked away in a leafy Hampshire location is
Russell’s Records. Selling a wide range

of albums and singles, they even provide
customers with free tea and coffee. Co-owner
Russ Bruton tells the shop's story. "It's the
best job in the world," he exclaims to Steve
Burniston.

How did Russell's Records come about?
Quite by accident! We started off with just a
couple of boxes of records we bought from our

local hi-fi shop [HiFi Hangar] when they became

too busy with the gear side of the business,
and from there it took off massively. We quickly

built up a great group of regular customers and,

within a year, had to relocate to a bigger shop.

Nine years down the line and this is still the best

job in the world.

What kind of music do you sell?

We sell a bit of everything from rock'n'roll and
heavy metal, jazz апа blues to some superb
American imported country. This year we
branched out into newer releases, 180 gram
represses of harder-to-find albums and even
merchandise, including our huge selection

of sew-on patches.

What are the most popular musical genres
for your customers?

Rock'n'roll, heavy metal, punk, jazz, and
Northern soul. We've got a big scooter
community nearby and any soul records fly
out quicker than we can display them!

The Musical Box- ‘Liverpool's oldest record shop since 1947,
owned by a family business spanning four generations. We take pride
in our longevity and extensive history, having been featured in several
TV programmes and documentaries. We are renowned for being a
‘hidden gem’ and specialise in new old vinyl LPs, 7” singles, CDs, 785
& cassettes. 457 West Derby Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool L6 4BL
Tel: 01512633845. musicalbox@hotmail.co.uk -
www.instagram.com/themusicalboxrecordshop - www.facebook.com/
themusicalboxrecordshop

TNT Records Ltd – Independent vinyl record shop in the Lake
District, supplying all genres and open 7 days. New releases and new
reissues including limited edition. Music merchandise and listening
rooms available. 86 Duke Street, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria,
LA14 1RD. Tel: 07428171256. info@tntrecords.co.uk

Vinyl Guru — 'New, Used, Rare & Collectible Vinyl from £1. David
Bowie Specialist, Video Game Soundtracks & Electronic Music, Art
Prints & Frames, Books, Hifi including Turntables, Styli & huge range
of accessories.' 69 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

МЕ1 156. Tel: 0191 242 0430. info@vinylguru.co.uk,
Www.Vvinylguru.co.uk

Vinyl Tap — ‘New & Used, Vinyl & Cds. New Releases, Indies
Exclusives, Dinked Editions. Over 150,000 items in stock online and
available in store. Can't find in the shop, please ask’

42 John William Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1ER.

01484 845999. www.vinyltap.co.uk

NORTHERN IRELAND

Abbazappa Record Shop - All genres, mostly new & sealed
vinyl, CD, books, cassettes, 4000+ classic / vintage titles in DVDs.
20,000+ vinyl LPs and 1000s of 45s. 1500+ online and listing
everyday at https://www.discogs.com/seller/Abbazappa/profile
Facebook Abbazappa Record Shop.

Palace Street, Derry BT48 6Р5. Tel: 07 731360234.
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Tell us about some interesting collectable
records you've sold.

A couple of Beatles box sets - the Singles and
the EP collections — and a really lovely copy of
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' A Night in
Tunisia. That's the album that actually got me
into listening to jazz.

How do you see things developing for
independent record shops, particularly the
smaller ones?

Its definitely harder for us little shops to
compete with the bigger chains who can buy the
very latest releases in bulk, but | think collectors
still prefer crate-digging over online ordering;
you never know what hidden gem you'll find.

An online presence is essential these days, but
we try to keep everything as in-store as we can;
nothing beats being able to listen to an album
before committing to it. | think, though, that as
long as music keeps going, the local record shop
isn't going anywhere just yet.

Name one rare record you'd love to get for
your shop.

| suppose if | had to pick it would be The Beatles’
Please Please Me on gold Parlophone. l've only
seen one copy which someone had melted into a
bowl, so seeing another would set my mind at ease!

Russell's Records, Unit 12, The Hardys,
High Street, Bordon, Hampshire, GU35 OAY/
01420 477221 / watersidepixels@hotmail.
co.uk /russells-records.co.uk

Boneyard Records — Stockists of new and used vinyl. Blues, soul, jazz,
country, folk, reggae and indie. Also a selection of guitars, strings and
record players. 27-29 Market Street Arcade, Omagh, County Tyrone
BT78 1EE Tel: 07765 788591. Email: johnniemullin@hotmail.co.uk

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Nostalgipalatset / Trash Palace - 'Sweden's BIGGEST store

for VINYL! We specialise in collectable rock, progressive, indie, jazz,
blues, soul, reggae etc. Also Scandinavia 5 Мо 1 stockist of RARE
metal & punk. Even a wide range of pop memorabilia like posters,
magazines etc." Open Mo-Fri 11am- / pm, Sat-Sun 11am-3pm.'
Sankt Eriksgatan 101, 11331 Stockholm, Sweden.

Tel: (+46)8340061 info@nostalgipalatset.com, www.nostalgipalatset.com

Vinylucky — 'Singapore's premier location for fine quality, hard-to-
find LPs, 12" singles, new/vintage/pre-owned in top condition. At least
13,500 LPs/12" in-stock. Weekly new arrivals. "A PLACE WHERE
GREAT MUSIC LIVES!” "THE GOLD STANDARD IN VINYL RECORDS".'
No. 1 Coleman Street, The Adelphi, Unit #B1-42, Singapore
179803. Tel: --65-6336-9071. vinylucky@hotmail.com http://
vinylucky.blogspot.com

Gibert Joseph Musique - 'Biggest independent records shop from
France for more than 35 years.' 34 Boulevard Saint Michel,
75006 Paris, France. Gibertjoseph.com Tel: +33 44 41 88 53.
Email: philippe.mariecegibertjoseph.com

Lost Padre Records — '^ record shop specialising in vintage LPs and
45s. We have a great love for garage rock, psych, soul, punk, funk, the
music of New Mexico and esoteric recordings from the world over.’
Tel: +1 505 310 6389 Email: lostpadrerecords@gmail.com

Hot Stuff AB — ‘Southern Sweden 5 leading shop for collectable
records & ephemera. 50.000 + items of second hand, "new" limited
editions and inhouse labels. Bank vault with high end collectables and
wide range of vinyls in almost any genre. If you travel a long way, we
even got special deals for hotels.’

Norra Esplanaden 5, Almhult, Sweden 34330.

Tel: +46 476 10449 - www.hotstuff.se

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and Julian Barratt's The Mighty Boosh pretty much existed їп a Alan Harper's perceptive analysis of the seismic year for modern blues
self-contained universe of its own, it will never need worry about that was 1966 (see p//6). The next step is,

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on the soundtrack to her life

The Drifters Up On The Roof (London,
45-HLK9626, 7”, UK, 1962) £10

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first noticed the names Goffin/King in parentheses.
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was so well-crafted, something in me thought, “How do you actually
do that?” I got serious writing songs when I was 14. It was always
about writing, never performing. Even as a teenager, I was happy in
the bathroom writing about being in love, while my friends were out
finding that love. Why the bathroom? Better acoustics.

The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand
(Parlophone, R5084, 7”, UK, 1963) £15

million musical hearts on fire, including mine.

ati | was seven. Ihe little kid me watching Ed Sullivan,
who made my mom go out the next day to buy Meet The Beatles? ‘That
person is still me. I freak out that two Beatles are on my song, when
I wrote Heres To All The Nights for Ringo. It doesnt get better than
that. I wrote the song so Ringo could get old and new friends to sing,
so, yeah, I was hoping Paul would be on, too.

The Supremes Stop! In The Name Of Love
(Tamla Motown, TMG501, 7”, UK, 1965) £12

Song titles are a great starting point. Someone will
say something that makes me think, “OK, that's a
title,’ and there is no better song title than Stop! In
The Name -Of Love. Its the title that makes me pick this above other
great Supremes songs like You Cant Hurry Love or Reflections. Motown
had so many great songwriters, creating the perfect mix of energy and
concepts. Lamont Dozier is a good friend, and I feel like part of his world
of songwriters powering things along. I’m my own Brill Building.

Matt Monro Born Free (Capitol, CL15436, 7",
UK, 1967) £4

| | saw Born Free as a kid and can still remember the
title song breaking my heart. It was the first time
I realised how a song can tie everything together in

a movie. Born Free is a song that can stand alone outside of the movie,
and thats important. A good film song has to survive after you've seen
the movie. When I wrote I Dont Want То Miss A ‘Thing for Aerosmith
in Armageddon, Tm not saying what the "thing" is. The song has to do
its job in the film, but you should let the song become what it wants.

Lulu To Sir With Love (B-side to Lets Pretend,
Columbia, DB8221, 7", UK, 1967) £10

Like Born Free, another classic song written for a
film by Don Black. Its well-known that I've been
nominated 12 times for Best Song at the Oscars

without winning. I’m not going to lie: itd mean a lot to win an Oscar.
But the people voting for that award are the best of the best, because
Don Black is the greatest at writing songs for films. If those kind of
people are nominating me from the hundreds of songs that are eligible
each year, that's already a win. I appreciate theres only one Best Song
category at the Oscars, when there are about 50 for the Grammys.

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I was 11 when I looked at Up On The Roof and

The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 set a

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman (sland,
ILPS 9135, LP, UK, 1970) & 70

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| When youve got songs as good as Father And Son
and Hard Headed Woman on the same record, and
youve got that voice singing them, that's a great
album. I literally wore my copy out studying these songs and had to
buy another one. I snuck into the Greek Theater in LA to see him as a
teenager. [hat was special, as I’m not a big concert person. I dont like to
be around too many people. I'd rather listen to the album on my own.

ZU iy Ў Prince (Music From The Motion Picture) Purple
[EUN | Rain (Warner Bros, 925110-1, LP, UK, 1984) £20

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we had an artist who can write, play and produce

| 24 everything? I like Frank Ocean, but Prince made
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close to Princes ability to do it all. You have 10 writers оп a song now,
and I think: "What the fuck did you guys all do? Why isnt this song

10 times better?" Prince, by himself, did all the stuff it takes 10 writers
to do, and 10 times better than them.

Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With
Somebody (Who Loves Me) (Arista, RISI, 7”,
UK, 1987) £1

I only met Prince once, briefly. Of the great artists

$ | of that era, I got to know Whitney Houston after
writing s so many songs with her. Whitney was the best singer of her
time, and a lovely person, too. I didnt see the problems coming for her
because, in the studio, she was totally professional — cool and hard-
working like all the greats. I Wanna Dance... is pure joy in song form.
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M Shop Boys do my song was an honour, as it is when
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Ма | When I wrote Only Love Can Hurt Like This, I had
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open mind. If you dont want to do it, that's fine, but at least listen to it."
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I adore Paloma, she just had to feature оп my album The Cave Sessions.

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UNDER THE

RADAR

This month:

The Direct Hits came to prominence in 1982
with their debut single, Modesty Blaise, issued
on Dan Treacy of the ГУ Personalities Whaam!
label. Treacy dubbed the groups songwriters
Colin Swan and Geno Buckmaster “the Lennon
and McCartney of mod” and the 45, an
ebullient burst of mod pop, secured the group
a devoted cult following.

Swan and Buckmaster had started out in
The Exits, a new wave band influenced by Elvis
Costello. They released just one single, 1978's
The Fashion Plague, on the Lightning Records
label, before it went bust. When The Exits split
soon after, the mod revival was on the rise.

“It all came to a shuddering halt with The
Exits but we saw this movement rising that we
could be a part of,” Colin Swan explains. “We
were into The Who's Quadrophenia album and
Genos flat in Thessaly Road, Battersea
overlooked The Whos Ramport studio. We
knew the local kids who appeared in the book
that came with the original album and wed
bunk off school to see The Who arriving during
the recording of the album in late 1972, early
1973. We got in Keith Moon acolyte Brian
Grover on drums for our band and christened
ourselves The Direct Hits, after The Who
compilation of the same name.”

The group donned military tunics and,
armed with smoke bombs, honed their craft at
residencies at Batterseas The Cricketers, the 101
club in Clapham Junction and The Rose And
Crown in Wandsworth before graduating to
The Bush in Shepherds Bush, Oxford Street’s
100 Club and the Clarendon Ballroom in
Hammersmith. But it was after meeting Dan
‘Treacy that they really started to make waves.

“We met Dan through Clive Solomon,
who was running [psych revival club] The
Groovy Cellar,’ Swan says. “Geno and I were
signed for publishing to Clives Twist And
Shout Music. He played Dan a demo tape hed
made with us of four tracks, one of which was
Modesty Blaise."

Impressed, Dan offered them a one-off
single release for Modesty Blaise, with a view to
making an album in the future. “I was writing
in that Ray Davies mode," Swan says.
"Observations of everyday British life. My dad
took notice of the song... he hadnt really liked
anything wed done until then. He reckoned it
was like the cry of a London market trader.”

With Whaam! struggling financially, che
group decided to self-fund a one-day recording
session in Tootings Broadway Sound studio to
record what they hoped would become their

Artists, bands and labels meriting more attention

debut album. The result — “[these] raw

demos of our most recently written songs
from our stage act at the time, with some
very minor overdubs on some of the tracks
but none on the vocals, as we had the
harmonies up to a good level" — remained
shelved until release earlier this year as The
Broadway Recording Sessions.

It wouldnt be until autumn 1984 that
Blow Up, their actual debut album, arrived on
Whaam! with five of the songs from The
Broadway Recording Sessions — Naughty Little
Boy, Miranda Berkley, What Killed Aleister
Crowley?, Тоо Shy and This Was Marc Deans
— appearing in a more polished form. Dan
‘Treacy, meanwhile, added piano to two tracks:
The Old Curiosity Shop and the aforesaid Too
Shy. “We had loads of time for Dan; we went
to his flat on the New Kings Road and helped
him hand-paint [TVPs] They Could Have Been
Bigger Than The Beatles plain white album
covers. He had such enthusiasm for the band,
even to the detriment of, and ridicule from, his
own band. We were a different animal: we had
one foot in the hard-edged mod camp, which
was really at odds with the art college/pop art
scene that surrounded the TVPs.”

“We were encouraged to
take pills and drink as
much as possible"

By this time, the group had their own fan
club organised by Diane Kenwill, which
published a monthly magazine that ran to 30
issues, and gave away badges and several tape-
only releases on their own Direct Records
label. "Over the last 8-9 years, these tape
recordings have gradually been transferred and
remastered onto CD by myself with the help
of my son Phil, whos a brilliant musician
himself,” Swan says. “I’m proud of the work
weve done with these, they dont sound half
bad considering and theres a fairly extensive
catalogue now available via Diane."

1985, meanwhile, saw the first of what
would become an annual tour of Germany.
"We were in our mid-twenties and only Geno
had been abroad before,” he explains. “We were
an English band flying to Germany and
encouraged on arrival to behave badly, take as
many pills as possible, drink us much as we
could and generally misbehave. The Jesus &
Mary Chain had been out two weeks before us,
and had caused the tour promoters to consider

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quitting promoting, as thered been so much
venue/hotel wrecking. We were Londoners and
it was our job to go one better, although we
didnt trash places, as we wanted to play.”

In 1986, they parted company with
Whaam! and formed their own label for their
second album The House Of Secrets, which was
produced by Dave Goodman, the Sex Pistols
one-time producer and soundman. "Dave was
a great producer. He was obsessed with [The
Beatles] Revolver and Rubber Soul, which we
were, too, and he played sitar pretty well."

It was a productive time, and before the
albums release, they began work on its follow-
up, a concept album provisionally titled 7he
Magic Attic, “about an attic that was stacked
full of childhood memories of toys that most
kids of our age group had". But when reviews
of The House Of Secrets weren't as favourable as
theyd hoped, the group began to flag; the
tracks destined for The Magic Attic appeared
instead on 19875 12-inch EP Snakes And
Ladders, which became their swansong and, in
1988, a reconfigured line-up played what
would become their final concert at a mod
"all-dayer" in Wimbledon.

Swan still performs, he says. “For the last
12 years I had a three-piece playing in pubs, me
and the missus and her mate, doing close three-
part harmonies with some backing tracks, just
playing covers. We moved out of London in
2018 to the Lake District, which, in the town
where I live, had a great live music scene until
the lockdown, and I did a few gigs just
beforehand with the backing tracks and the
missus singing lead and harmonies. In between
that, I spend time mastering new releases on
Direct Records, of which there is still a wealth
of archive material from the 80s and 90s.

I guess ГЇЇ always keep my hand in somehow.”

As for how he looks back on The Direct
Hits he says, "Im proud of our recorded
legacy. It was a great period for us and a lot
of teenage mods who were all part of it, and
made it what it was. It still amazes me that
theres a huge group of people out there that
still hold what we did in such high regard."

Words: Lois Wilson

The Direct Hits’ The Broadway Recording
Sessions zs out now on Optic Nerve. For more
info contact diane@blaammrecords.com

Record Collector 143

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The unsung heroes who
helped forge modern music

This month:

There are few unsung heroes who deserve to
have their name writ as large as that of
Nicholas Christian Hopkins (aka Edward,
Sticky Topkins or Diamond Tiaras). Bereft of
ego and an all-round good egg, Hopkins
remains an uncrowned icon of the ivories;
always the sideman and never the star.

No sooner had he won a scholarship to the
Royal Academy Of Music than he abandoned
his studies aged just 16 to join Screaming Lord
Sutch’s Savages. After enduring the ravings of
the ignoble lunatic for a couple of years the
band quit en masse. “We got pissed off with
Sutch,” Hopkins told Merle Frankhauser in a
1991 interview, “and we started backing Cyril
Davies — a phenomenal blues harmonica
player who had just left Alexis Korner. We
filled the Marquee to capacity and beyond
every Thursday night. This would have been
late 62 and, curiously enough, this was the
first time I met the Stones when they became
our support band.”

As Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues
All Stars they released Country Line Special,
which prominently featured Hopkins’ nimble
fingering, much admired by Ray Davies and
Pete Townshend. Within weeks, though,
Hopkins was forced to leave when diagnosed
with Crohn's disease — he was hospitalised for
19 months. Upon recovery he decided to give
up regular gigging and concentrate on session
work, during which he came to the attention
of American producer Shel Talmy, then
working with The Kinks and The Who.

Being equally at home playing Memphis
blues and music-hall ballads, he collaborated
with The Who on their My Generation and
Whos Next albums, and with The Kinks on
The Kink Kontroversy through to Village Green
Preservation Society. His versatility on
keyboards, harpsichord, piano, melodica,
harmonium and mellotron enhanced the
Kinks canon and partly inspired Ray Davies to
pen Session Man; a typically back-handed
compliment from Mr Misfit himself.

When The Rolling Stones resumed
recording albums in England at Olympic
Studios, Hopkins was duly invited to attend
and made his debut playing the stomping
piano intro and riff to We Love You; he would
go on to make significant contributions to
most of the Stones albums from Between The
Buttons to Гайоо You.

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One evening, during sessions for Let /t
Bleed, while waiting for Keith Richards to
show up, the band made an impromptu
recording with Hopkins and Ry Cooder which
eventually saw release a couple of years later as
Jamming With Edward. Though of
questionable audio quality, the album at least
demonstrates the protagonists’ improvisational
skills, even if it pales in comparison to the
purple passages dominating his solo effort,
1973’s The Tin Man Was A Dreamer.

Hopkins somehow also found time to join
The Jeff Beck Group, with whom he toured
America and recorded their two milestones,
Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969), before
quitting in a dispute over wages. Relocating to
California, he briefly joined Jefferson Airplane
who were in need of a keyboard player for
1969% Volunteers and later accompanied them

to a gig in upstate New York. “They asked if I

“I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll come
along’ — it turned out
to be Woodstoc

could come and do an open-air festival in the
east, and said it would be for about three
days,” he said. “I sort of liked the idea so said,
Yeah, I'll come along.’ I went with them and
it turned out to be Woodstock.”

Continuing his keyboard duties with the
Stones, Hopkins joined emblematic San
Franciscan band Quicksilver Messenger
Service. With founder Dino Valenti
incarcerated following a drugs bust, the band
recorded their sharp-shootin’ Happy Trails, а
live album which became an unexpected chart
hit. But before they could make good on their
success, guitarist Gary Duncan quit and
Hopkins was invited to fill the creative void.
The first flowering of this promising union
was Shady Grove, released in 1969. Where the
majority of the band are still Bo Diddley-
fixated, Hopkins offers a richer sonic palette,
evidenced by LP finale, Edward The Mad
Shirt Grinder, an instrumental tour de force
brim-full of his pianistic brilliance.

Two further albums, /ust For Love and
What About Me, were released the following
year, with both Valenti and Duncan back on
board. Recorded in quick succession in
Hawaii, each album has its merits but Valenti's

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predilection for basically rewriting the same
song stunted the band's progress. Hopkins
departed before the recordings were complete.

He found himself in demand by the likes of
Joe Cocker, George Harrison and Rod Stewart
and worked closely with John Lennon on
Imagine: his relaxed, lyrical strains added much
to the album. But by the latter half of the 70s
Hopkins’ health was beginning to suffer from
an excess of drink and drug abuse, exacerbated
by his deteriorating relationship with his first
wife, Dolly. With the aid of a few musician
friends, including jazz pianist Chick Corea, he
underwent a successful drug rehabilitation
programme and, as a result, became a convert
to the contentious Church of Scientology.

Hopkins entered the 80s feeling
re-energised, eager to get his career back on
track. Unfortunately, in his absence the music
landscape had changed dramatically and there
was now less demand for proficient top-grade
session men like Hopkins and the work proved
sporadic. There were highlights: he toured as
keyboardist with Sky, Gene Clark and Art
Garfunkel, and recorded several albums with
Graham Parker And The Rumour and even
guested on Spinal Тар 5 Break Like The Wind
and wrote musical scores for a number of
Japanese films and TV serials.

In 1994 he moved to Nashville with his
second wife Moira. It was a settled and
contented time, but it ended abruptly. On
6 September that year he was rushed to hospital
where he died as a result of complications related
to Crohn's disease, aged 50. His legacy, however,
was intact: while he adapted to the demands of
synthesised keyboards and samplers, the piano
remained his instrument. His faultless technique
and ability to assimilate any style were enduring
hallmarks of his virtuosity.

Dave Davies, for whom Hopkins provided
the wistful harpsichord and piano
accompaniment on Death Of A Clown,
summarised his appreciation of Hopkins for
RC. "He was a talented and genuinely polite
guy with a generous nature, and was always
very supportive," he said. "Nicky was a
wonderful musician. He uplifted and added

much to our music. А one-off.”

Words: Lin Bensley
And On Piano... Nicky Hopkins by Julian
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This month:

John Coltrane A Love Supreme (A-77, LP, US,
1965) £800

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The biggest and brightest jewel іп Impulse!'s crown,
Coltrane conceived A Love Supreme as a four-part
hymn of gratitude to God celebrating the purer,
more spiritually focused life he embraced after overcoming his drug
addiction in 1957. The album's deeply meditative vibe and mesmeric,
open-ended modal style — based on set scales rather than chord changes

— found a huge audience beyond the jazz world, influencing late 60s rock

groups like the Grateful Dead, Santana and the Allman Brothers.

Alice Coltrane Journey To Satchidananda (AS-
9203, LP, US, 1971) £80

Coltrane launched her solo career by blending the
Lie М modal style and spiritual-themed arc of A Love
Sive with Pacem mysticism and Indian classical music. She also
learned to play the harp, which is featured extensively on this, her fourth
and arguably best long-player for Impulse! The album's unique sonic
landscape and blissed-out, beatific mood are defined by the mesmeric
opening track, where Coltrane's cascading harp glissandi flow over droning
Indian tamboura while Pharoah Sanders blows keening sax melodies.

MINGUS Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The

E Sinner Lady (А-35, LP, US, 1963), £30
Considered by many Mingus’ masterpiece, The
Black Saint & The Sinner Lady was the first of three

% albums the New Мехісо-Богп bassist/composer
кеге a Impulse! An ambitious four-part suite scored for 11
musicians, it was conceived as a jazz ballet based on Mingus’
autobiographical ruminations and deals with themes of love, life and
redemption. Sonically, it's characterised by a brooding, almost noir-
esque atmosphere in which lush textures blend aching blues cries with
sanctified gospel cadences and Iberian inflections.

Pharoah Sanders Karma (AS-9181, LP, US,
1969), 515

Building on the spiritual jazz foundations that his
mentor John Coltrane established, Sanders emerged
" from his master’s shadow on his second Impulse!
album, Karma, recorded with a large group of musicians that included
avant-garde vocalist Leon Thomas. The Creator Has A Master Plan, the
longest of the album’s two tracks, is the undoubted centrepiece: 32
minutes of howling, atonal chaos juxtaposed with passages of nirvanic
bliss where Sanders’ baying sax, James Spaulding’s dancing flute and
Thomas’ manic yodelling coalesce into an irresistible cosmic groove.

Oliver Nelson The Blues And The Abstract
Truth (A-5, LP, US, 1961), £20

Though it became synonymous with free jazz and
the dawn of Afro-futurism, Impulse! was also home
to some thrilling bebop-influenced, straight-ahead
jazz recordings such as saxophonist/arranger Nelson's The Blues & The
Abstract Truth. Produced by Impulse!’s founder, producer Creed Taylor,
the album featured an all-star sextet that included trumpeter Freddie
Hubbard, saxophonist/flautist Eric Dolphy and pianist Bill Evans. Here
they and Nelson create some wonderful performances; the best being the
elegant Stolen Moments, which went on to become a jazz standard.

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After her husband John’s death in 1967, pianist Alice

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Sonny Rollins A/fie (A-9111, LP, US, 1966), £80

Rollins’ penultimate Impulse! album was this опе, the
tenor saxophonist's soundtrack to director Lewis
Gilbert's global box office smash starring Michael
Caine as the titular wideboy. Гһе music you hear in
the movie was cut with British musicians on a sound stage in
Twickenham but for the official album release, Rollins re-recorded all of
the tracks with an orchestra arranged by Oliver Nelson at Rudy Van
Gelder's studio in New Jersey. The iconic tide track, with its vibrant horn
theme, is the most immediately recognisable number in Rollins’ canon.

Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village (AS-9155,
LP, US, 1967), £80

Describing himself as the "Holy Ghost” to John
Coltrane's “Father” and Pharoah Sanders’ “Son” in
the Holy Trinity of free jazz, Ayler’s debut for
Impulse! was this incendiary live album, which captured the saxophonist
playing with two different ensembles live in New York. The joyous Truth
Is Marching In, with its martial rhythms, taps into Ayler's gospel music
roots while the more ethereal For John Coltrane is a homage to the
saxophonist's mentor (who was іп the audience when it was recorded).

Archie Shepp Four For Trane (AS-71, LP, US,
1964), £120

Impulse! producer Bob Thiele was reluctant to
record Shepp, whose music he deemed too outré
for a label that, ironically, later signed Albert Ayler
and Ornette Coleman. But thanks to the intervention of John Coltrane,
the Florida-born saxophonist got his chance to record this debut album,
which reworked two tracks each from Гтапе 8 Giant Steps and Coltrane
Plays The Blues albums; they included Cousin Mary and Naima, which
were reconfigured by Shepp’s sextet into edgy avant-garde pieces.

"3 Art Blakey & The p 221,

1961) £75

The Jazz Messengers had a brief spell at Impulse!
where they produced this gem. By that time, they had
morphed into a sextet with trombonist Curtis Fuller augmenting a line-up
that included trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The
chief highlight is the opening cut, the Fuller-penned Alamode, where the
three horns enunciate a harmonised theme over Blakey's pulsating

polyrhythms before breaking off for blistering improvised solos.

Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh (AS-9240, LP, US,
1973) &19

In the US Jarrett was signed to Impulse! with his
“American Quartet’, one of that decade's most

sm! progressive bands. Besides playing his customary
piano, „Бе dabbled with saxophone, flute and percussion in a band
with saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer
Paul Motian. Recorded live in New York, Fort Yawuh was the outfit's
Impulse! debut and is an astonishing blend of riotous free jazz, episodic
rhapsodies, celestial hymns and infectious rock-gospel jams.

Words: Charles Waring
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